United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that it did not have jurisdiction to rule on the Eastern District of New York Court's order vacating the Bankruptcy Court's entry of...
In this challenge by Kenneth Pettine (DR), a chapter 7 debtor, of the decision of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado (BC) granting the motion by a trustee (TR) for a charging...
Judge(s):
Robert H. Jacobvitz; Dale L. Somers; and Janice Loyd
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held a district court did not abuse its discretion in denying a pro se appellant's motion for an extension of time to file a notice of appeal.
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed rulings that debtor's conduct did not amount to concealment of estate property or constitute false oaths necessary to bar discharge under section 727. The Eleventh...
Judge(s):
Jill Pryor and Grant, Circuit Judges and Maze, District Judge
Whether 11 U.S.C. § 365(f), or any other portion of Title 11, authorizes a bankruptcy court’s approval of a debtor’s
partial assignment of an executory contract? It does not.
Judge(s):
Per Curiam- Richman, Chief Judge, and Southwick and Oldham.
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) affirmed the findings of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court
for the Central District of California (BC) that Michael Eugene Reznick (RZ), an...
Judge(s):
Robert J. Faris; William J. Lafferty III; and Frederick P. Corbit
Business debt to bank is dischargeable under facts of this case, which failed to establish the required elements under 523(a), namely: (a) a reasonable investigation would have revealed prior...
Following the Supreme Court's decision in Bartenwerfer v. Buckley, 589 U.S. 69 (2023), and Texas law establishing a person's liability for another's misrepresentations, an arbitrator's findings of...
Under 28 U.S.C. § 1961(a), a judgment entered by a bankruptcy court in an adversary proceeding must include post-judgment interest because a bankruptcy court is a unit of the district court (28...
In litigation that spanned many years, the 5th Circuit held that post-judgment interest, pursuant to 28 USC Sec. 1961(a),(c)(4) [applicable to bankruptcy courts as units of the district courts],...
