The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held a bankruptcy court did not err in converting a chapter 11 case to chapter 7. The court explained a conversion order is final as it resolves a discrete...
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) dismissed as equitably moot an appeal of the order confirming the liquidating plan of Artesian Future Technology, LLC (AFT) and...
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit discerned no error in the orders of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Oregon (BC) overruling the objections of Rita K....
Judge(s):
Frederick P. Corbit; Robert J. Faris; and Julia W. Brand
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held a bankruptcy court did not err in concluding the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and the doctrines of res judicata and collateral estoppel did not bar...
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that it did not have jurisdiction to rule on the Eastern District of New York Court's order vacating the Bankruptcy Court's entry of...
In this challenge by Kenneth Pettine (DR), a chapter 7 debtor, of the decision of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado (BC) granting the motion by a trustee (TR) for a charging...
Judge(s):
Robert H. Jacobvitz; Dale L. Somers; and Janice Loyd
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held a district court did not abuse its discretion in denying a pro se appellant's motion for an extension of time to file a notice of appeal.
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed rulings that debtor's conduct did not amount to concealment of estate property or constitute false oaths necessary to bar discharge under section 727. The Eleventh...
Judge(s):
Jill Pryor and Grant, Circuit Judges and Maze, District Judge
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) affirmed the findings of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court
for the Central District of California (BC) that Michael Eugene Reznick (RZ), an...
Judge(s):
Robert J. Faris; William J. Lafferty III; and Frederick P. Corbit
Business debt to bank is dischargeable under facts of this case, which failed to establish the required elements under 523(a), namely: (a) a reasonable investigation would have revealed prior...
