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IN RE: BRACE, JR.

  • Summarized by Lars Fuller , BakerHostetler
  • 4 weeks 40 min ago
Citation:
No. 17-60032 (9th Circuit, Nov 08,2018) Published
Case Status:
Dismissed
Ruling:
9th Cir. certified question for California Supreme Court regarding conflicting presumptions in real property ownership related to community property and title in deed. Community property...
Judge(s):
Callahan, Nguyen, Ezra
Tag(s):

IN RE: PROVIDER MEDS, L.L.C.

  • Summarized by Aaron Kaufman , Dykema Gossett PLLC
  • 1 month 1 week ago
Citation:
17-11113 (5th Circuit, Oct 29,2018) Published
Case Status:
Affirmed
Ruling:
Court concluded that the non-exclusive patent licenses were "executory contracts" that were deemed rejected by operation of law 60 days after conversion of the cases from chapter 11 to chapter 7. ...
Judge(s):
Higginbotham, Smith and Graves
Tag(s):

IN RE: INSITE CORPORATION, INC.

Citation:
17-1436 (1st Circuit, Oct 05,2018) Published
Case Status:
Reversed and Remanded
Ruling:
The Pearlman doctrine (Pearlman v. Reliance Ins. Co., 371 U.S. 132, 141-42 (1962)), does not apply to the relationship at issue between the debtor-subcontractor and the contractor due to the...
Judge(s):
Torruella, Lipez, and Barron
Tag(s):

IN RE: PAIGE

  • Summarized by Nascine Howell , U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of New Jersey
  • 2 months 1 week ago
Citation:
No. 18-1124 (3rd Circuit, Sep 27,2018) Not Published
Case Status:
Affirmed
Ruling:
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the Bankruptcy Court’s rulings, finding that the arguments by the pro-se debtors, Christopher Howard Paige and Michele Anna Paige, were “wholly...
Judge(s):
Jordan, Vanaskie, and Nygaard, Circuit Judges
Tag(s):

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON v. LANE

Citation:
NC-16-1405-BSTa (9th Circuit, Sep 19,2018) Published
Case Status:
Reversed
Ruling:
The bankruptcy court erred in voiding a holder's first priority deed of trust. The order upholding the debtor's objection to the holder's proof of claim was not a ruling on the merits as to the...
Judge(s):
BRAND, SPRAKER and TAYLOR, Bankruptcy Judges
Tag(s):

IN RE: ENERGY FUTURE HOLDINGS CORP., et al,

Citation:
18-1109 (3rd Circuit, Sep 13,2018) Published
Case Status:
Affirmed
Ruling:
Majority holds the bankruptcy court did not abuse its discretion to reconsider its prior order, entered a year earlier, approving a break-up fee under a merger agreement. The order approving the...
Judge(s):
Greenaway, Jr. (author for majority), Fuentes, and Rendell (dissenting)
Tag(s):

Hunsaker v. U.S.A.

  • Summarized by Camila Bersani , United States Bankruptcy Courts
  • 3 months 1 week ago
Citation:
16-35991 (9th Circuit, Aug 30,2018) Published
Case Status:
Reversed and Remanded
Ruling:
Ninth Circuit reversing district court, which had reserved the bankruptcy court award of damages to the Debtors for violation of the automatic stay by the IRS. Sovereign immunity does not bar an...
Judge(s):
McKeown, Paez, and Bashant
Tag(s):

Walters v. Cates

  • Summarized by Lars Fuller , BakerHostetler
  • 3 months 2 weeks ago
Citation:
BAP No. CO-17-047 (10th Circuit, Aug 24,2018) Published
Case Status:
Affirmed
Ruling:
BAP for 10th Circuit affirmed ruling of bankruptcy court (D. Colo.) granting defendants' motion for summary judgment based on determination that transfer occurred outside of preference period....
Judge(s):
Cornish, Jacobvitz, Hall
Tag(s):

Kemp v. U.S. Department of Education

Citation:
17-6032 (8th Circuit, Aug 24,2018) Published
Case Status:
Affirmed
Ruling:
In order to obtain a section 523(a)(8) discharge, a debtor must introduce a preponderance of evidence that shows that any obligation to repay student loan debt imposes an undue hardship on the...
Judge(s):
SALADINO, NAIL and SHODEEN
Tag(s):

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