The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) upheld as proper the dismissal by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California (BC) of claims, as set forth in...
Judge(s):
Laura S. Taylor; Robert J. Faris; and Scott H. Gan
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP): (1) affirmed the denial by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California (BC) of a motion to reopen a dormant case...
Judge(s):
Laura S. Taylor; Robert J. Faris; and Scott H. Gan
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (Circuit) held that Roth Individual Retirement Accounts (Roth IRAs), like customary Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and 401(k) accounts, are...
Judge(s):
Charles R. Wilson; Barbara Lagoa; and Edward E. Carnes
The BAP affirmed the bankruptcy court's ruling sustaining the trustee's objections to: (1) the state's claim that a nonprofit, not the debtor, should recover the remaining tax settlement funds, and...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (Circuit) both denied the motion to certify whether 5200 Enterprises Limited (Enterprises or DR) had stated a claim for continuing trespass under...
Judge(s):
Kevin C. Newsom; Adalberto J. Jordan; and Edward E. Carnes
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Sixth Circuit (BAP) affirmed the authority of a bankruptcy judge to impose conditions on the voluntary, but with prejudice, dismissal of an adversary...
Judge(s):
Scott W. Dales; Randal S. Mashburn; and Tracey N. Wise
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) affirmed the decision of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Washington (BC) concluding that those portions of a...
Judge(s):
William J. Lafferty III; Julia W. Brand; and Gary A. Spraker
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (Circuit) affirmed the grant of summary judgment by the U.S. District Court for Southern District of Indiana (DC) to Southwest Credit Systems (SW),...
Judge(s):
Daniel A. Manion; Diane P. Wood; and Michael B. Brennan
The Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel affirmed the bankruptcy court's summary judgment in favor of plaintiff-judgment creditor on his 523(a)(2)(A) claim against the defendant debtor based on...
A party seeking to file an objection to discharge must obtain an order granting an extension if the claim objection is not filed within 60 days after the first date set for the first meeting of...
Judge(s):
Higginbotham, Higginson, and Duncan, Circuit Judges
