The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld a bankruptcy court's summary judgment ruling against a debtor, denying him a discharge pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §727(a)(3). The bankruptcy...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit affirmed the district court’s judgment affirming the bankruptcy court’s dismissal of adversarial proceedings surrounding state criminal convictions...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit reversed in part and vacated in part the district court's judgment affirming the bankruptcy court’s awarding of reduced attorney’s fees to Debtor...
The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (“6th Cir.”) dismissed the appeal of the Chapter 13 trustee for lack of jurisdiction, holding that the district court’s orders were...
Reversing the U.S. Bankruptcy and U.S. District Courts for the Southern District of Texas (BC and DC), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Circuit) deemed that the settlement and...
Overruling the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California (DC) and deeming mootness inapposite, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (Circuit) held the plain language of...
Judge(s):
Carlos T. Bea; Ana de Alba; and Jeffrey Vincent Brown
Faced with a dispute among unsecured and secured creditors over the allocation of equity in a reconstituted chapter 11 debtor, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Circuit) found the...
Judge(s):
Edith H. Jones; Kurt D. Engelhardt; and Andrew S. Oldham
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld a district court's sua sponte dismissal, with prejudice, of a pro se plaintiff/debtor's in forma pauperis complaint against a bankruptcy...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a bankruptcy court's order confirming a chapter 13 plan over a creditor's objections. Most notably, the court held, as a matter of first...
Judge(s):
Mary M. Schroeder, William A. Fletcher, and Consuelo M. Callahan
