In this non-precedential opinion, the Third Circuit affirmed the decision of the District Court affirming the decision of the Bankruptcy Court finding in favor of the chapter 7 trustee avoiding a...
Judge(s):
CHAGARES, Chief Judge, PORTER and SCIRICA, Circuit Judges
The Sixth Circuit affirmed the bankruptcy court’s “Declaration Order,” which had clarified that its previous orders barred the lessor-appellant from challenging the validity of a lease...
McIntyre had business disputes with Fangman. After interpleading the amount he admitted owing in a state court, he filed a pro se Chapter 13 bankruptcy in which he challenged the state court's...
Section 1334(d) of title 28 of the United States Code establishes that a Circuit Court of Appeals does not have jurisdiction to review a bankruptcy court's permissive abstention from hearing a...
In this non-precedential opinion, the Third Circuit affirmed the decision of the District Court finding that the Bankruptcy Court lacked good cause to reopen the former confirmed chapter 11 case of...
Judge(s):
CHAGARES, Chief Judge, MATEY and FUENTES, Circuit Judges
The Fourth Circuit held that § 327(a) does not permit former trustees to file post-hoc applications to employ professionals for work done while they were trustees if the case has already been...
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed lower court decisions district court denying a motion to set aside a default judgment under Rule 60(b)(4) of the Federal Rules of Civil...
Judge(s):
Larsen, Boggs and McKeague. Opinion by Larsen. Dissent by McKeague.
A panel for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision of the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel holding that the debtor was allowed to exempt "100% of FMV" of a property as a homestead...
A debtor is ineligible for bankruptcy in the Third Circuit if it cannot show that it is in financial distress. A debtor's mere forecast of blockbuster verdicts against it, or the "attenuated"...
Circuit court reversed the district court's reversal of the bankruptcy court denial of a group of creditors', "Falcon," "Amendment of Informal Proofs of Claim." The bankruptcy found that Falcon had...
