The bankruptcy court did not err when dismissing the appellants' second nondischargeability complaint and denying appellants' subsequent motion for reconsideration. The bankruptcy court correctly...
Judge(s):
SALADINO, Chief Judge, DOW and SANBERG, Bankruptcy Judges
11 U.S.C. § 108(c) tolled the period in which a judgment creditor could enforce a one-year “ORAP lien” encumbering
the Debtor’s personal property under California Code of Civil Procedure...
Judge(s):
Kim McLane Wardlaw and Jay S. Bybee, Circuit Judges, and Harvey Bartle III, District Judge.
9th Cir. affirmed in part and reversed in part district court's (WD Wa.) summary judgment in favor of defendant vessel owner in bunker supplier's (marine fuel) suit for payment based on maritime...
The Chapter 13 Trustee argued that Cowen was wrongly decided. Citing the rule that absent en banc review or intervening Supreme Court precedent, one panel of the 10th Circuit cannot overturn the...
Judge(s):
Tymkovich, Chief Judge, Holmes, and Phillips, Circuit Judges
The Pearlman doctrine (Pearlman v. Reliance Ins. Co., 371 U.S. 132, 141-42 (1962)), does not apply to the relationship at issue between the debtor-subcontractor and the contractor due to the...
The bankruptcy court erred in voiding a holder's first priority deed of trust. The order upholding the debtor's objection to the holder's proof of claim was not a ruling on the merits as to the...
9th Cir. affirmed in part and reversed in part ruling of district court (SD Cal.). 9th Circuit agreed employer did not waive right to arbitrate by waiting to seek to compel arbitration. Private...
Majority holds the bankruptcy court did not abuse its discretion to reconsider its prior order, entered a year earlier, approving a break-up fee under a merger agreement. The order approving the...
Judge(s):
Greenaway, Jr. (author for majority), Fuentes, and Rendell (dissenting)
BAP for 9th Cir. reversed and remanded contempt citation of bankruptcy court (CD Cal.) finding the court made inadequate findings to support ruling. Bankruptcy court failed to find that...
Failure to address a lower court's opinion that the appeal was moot under section 363(m) constitutes a waiver of that argument unless the appellant presented evidence at the bankruptcy court, and...
