Joining the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Tenth Circuits, whose decisions the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois (BC) had followed, the U.S. Court of Appeals for...
Judge(s):
Thomas Kirsch; Frank Easterbrook; and Diane S. Sykes
OPINION NOT PRECEDENTIAL - Administrative expense claim struck because mediation communications in support of the administrative expense claim were not admissible. The parties had not waived the...
Judge(s):
CHAGARES, Chief Judge, PORTER and SCIRICA, Circuit Judges
Joining the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and diverging from some bankruptcy courts, including the one below, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Circuit) held that, in...
Judge(s):
Stuart K. Duncan; Stephen A. Higginson; and Patrick Higginbotham
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held a bankruptcy court did not abuse its discretion in awarding compensation to a law firm for work performed in a Singapore proceeding. The...
As had the tria, court below, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (Circuit) affirmed orders issued by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Nevada (BC) that denied the claim of...
Judge(s):
Mary H. Murguia; Salvador Mendoza Jr.; and Ana de Alba
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held (1) it lacked jurisdiction to review a bankruptcy court's decision to permissively abstain; (2) the appellant waived any due process argument...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held a bankruptcy court erred in sanctioning a law firm and its client by shifting $239,655 in legal fees. The fee-shifting amounted to a criminal...
As had the immediately lower court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (Circuit) affirmed the decision of the U.S, Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida (BC) not to...
Judge(s):
Robin S. Rosenbaum; Jill A. Pryor; and Britt Grant
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a bankruptcy court's post-trial judgment excepting a debt from discharge. A dissenting judge would have remanded on one issue-whether the...
In this non-bankruptcy opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Circuit) affirmed the decision of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas (DC) not to award a...
Judge(s):
Leslie H. Southwick; James L. Dennis; and Carl E. Stewart
