Sullivan v. Glenn, No. 14-3213 (7th Cir. Apr. 2, 2015)
Ruling:
The court AFFIRMED the ruling of the district court. The court accepted that the loan broker was the Glenns' agent, as the Glenns hired the loan broker to negotiate a short-term loan on their...
Affirmed. Writing on an issue of first impression in the Ninth Circuit, the BAP Panel held that application of the Section 523(a)(8)(A)(ii) student loan discharge exception requires the debtor to...
Official Comm. of Unsecured Creditors v. Baldwin (In re Lemington Home for the Aged), Case No. 13-2707 (3d Cir. Feb. 23, 2015)
Ruling:
Petition for rehearing by the merits panel and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, en banc, is denied. In a separate opinion concurring in the denial of the petition for rehearing, four Circuit...
Judge(s):
McKee, Chief Judge; Rendell; Ambro; Fuentes; Smith; Fisher; Chagares; Jordan; Hardiman; Greenaway, Jr.; Vanaskie; Shwartz and Krause; Jordan (concurring, joined by Rendell, Ambro and Krause)
Summarized by Bonnie Clair , U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Missouri
11 years 6 days ago
Citation:
Metrou v. M.A. Morteson Co., No. 14-8030, --- WL --- (7th Cir. Mar. 23, 2015)
Ruling:
In a matter of first impression at the appellate level and reversing the decision below, the Seventh Circuit declined to utilize judicial estoppel to cap a Chapter 7 trustee's potential recovery in...
Curtis v. Perkins (In re International Management Associates, LLC), No. 14-13423 (11th Cir. Mar. 19, 2015)
Ruling:
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the Georgia District Court’s affirmance of the Bankruptcy Court’s admission of critical business summaries and its Ponzi scheme finding. With respect to the...
Summarized by Robert Stenzhorn , Virginia Legal Aid Society, Inc.
11 years 1 week ago
Citation:
Moses v. Cashcall, Inc., 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 4098 (4th Cir. 2015)
Ruling:
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded with instructions by per curiam opinion:
"This bankruptcy appeal presents the issue of whether two claims, one for declaratory relief and one for...
Judge(s):
Before: Circuit Judges Paul v. Niemeyer and Roger L. Gregory, and Senior Circuit Judge Andre M. Davis
Summarized by Paul Stewart , Stewart Robbins Brown & Altazan, LLC
11 years 2 weeks ago
Citation:
Case: 14-30512
Ruling:
Under Fifth Circuit jurisprudence, the Rooker–Feldman doctrine barred Plaintiffs' action as they were (1) state-court losers; (2) alleging harm caused by a state-court judgment; (3) that was...
Gerard v. Gerard, No. 14-1496 (7th Cir. Mar. 12, 2015)
Ruling:
The 7th Circuit reversed the U.S. District Court (E.D. Wis.), which had affirmed the bankruptcy court's entry of judgment of nondischargeability under 11 USC 523(a)(6)(willful and malicious injury)...
Summarized by Bruce Weiner , Rosenberg, Musso & Weiner
11 years 2 weeks ago
Citation:
14-1154, 2015 WL 1020736
Ruling:
Eighth Circuit affirmed bankruptcy court's finding that liens should be avoided as fraudulent conveyances because a sufficient number of the traditional badges of fraud were present to give rise to...
