The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (Circuit) affirmed the order of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah (DC) that itself affirmed the denial of a motion to extend time to...
Judge(s):
Harris L. Hartz; Robert E. Bacharach; and Nancy Moritz
A chapter 13 plan that does not expressly address a specific claim has no res judicata or equitable effect on such claim. Thus, a claim that is recognized as a secured claim under state law does...
The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's ruling that a debtor in possession had prudential standing to contest the creditor's §506(b) motion. Also, the Fifth Circuit upheld the district...
Judge(s):
Judge Patrick E. Higginbotham, Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan, and Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt
The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit (BAP) affirmed the an order by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California (BC) granting the motions to dismiss the...
As had the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas (DC), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (Circuit) affirmed the order, issued by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the...
Judge(s):
James B. Loken; Morris S. Arnold; and Jonathan A. Kobes
In a per curiam opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Circuit) found William Paul Burch (Debtor) to have raised no nonfrivolous issues on appeal and thus denied his motion to...
Judge(s):
Patrick E. Higginbotham; S. Kyle Duncan; and Charles R. Wilson
While the judges divided over the preferred approach and proper reasoning, this panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Circuit) unanimously agreed that the underlying arbitration...
Judge(s):
Leslie H. Southwick; Edith H. Jones; and Andrew S. Oldham
Appellants failed to raise § 502(e) in bankruptcy court and thus waived the issue on appeal. BAP found that § 502(e) did not apply because the Estate no longer had a co-obligation with a...
Judge(s):
Hon. Laura S. Taylor; Hon. Gary A. Spraker; Hon. Scott H. Gan
The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit upheld a bankruptcy court's post-trial judgment excepting a $514,245 debt from the chapter 7 debtor/appellant's discharge under 11 USC §...
Publishing to explain the effect of a “100% of FMV” exemption claim and to reiterate that parties must timely object to any improper exemption claim despite its frivolity, the U.S. Bankruptcy...
Judge(s):
Robert J. Faris; William J. Lafferty; and Julia W. Brand
