The Fifth Circuit certified to the Mississippi Supreme Court the narrow issue of whether the Mississippi champerty statute (Miss. Code Ann. § 97-9-11) voids the assignment of a cause of action...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held (a) the Minor Children had Article III standing to appeal from a bankruptcy court's decision denying their motion for a "comfort order" to...
Wading into three areas of law-the Bankruptcy Code, the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), and Illinois state law—the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (Circuit) concluded that the...
Debtor's appeal of a settlement order entered by the bankruptcy court was dismissed due to his appeal being filed 11 months late. Furthermore, his appeal of a denied request for relief under FRCP...
Judge(s):
Catharina Haynes, James E. Graves Jr., Stephen A. Higginson
The Fifth Circuit held that the bankruptcy court had the “undisputed power to order the sale of a bankruptcy debtor’s assets” and that turnover of those assets pursuant to the sale order was...
In its second opinion of the year arising from contempt orders and sanctions awards against the former CEO of debtor Highland Capital Management, the Fifth Circuit affirmed the Bankruptcy Court's...
In this non-precedential ruling, the Third Circuit affirmed the decisions of the District and Bankruptcy Courts annulling the automatic stay and dismissing the pro se debtors’ civil action...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (Circuit) held that Ricky Hughes (DR), a former chapter 13 debtor whose first plan payment dated nearly 10 years earlier, had the standing to...
Judge(s):
Ralph R. Erickson; Michael J. Melloy; and David Stras
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel and bankruptcy court decisions to permissively abstain from resolving its competing claims with its former counsel,...
