Publishing to explain the effect of a “100% of FMV” exemption claim and to reiterate that parties must timely object to any improper exemption claim despite its frivolity, the U.S. Bankruptcy...
Judge(s):
Robert J. Faris; William J. Lafferty; and Julia W. Brand
In a case so complex to require a timeline, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (Circuit) dismissed those aspects deemed moot without any merit review but affirmed the grant of summary...
Judge(s):
Gustavo Gelpí; Kermit V. Lipez; and O. Regeriee Thompson
The decision has no precedential value and is not recommended for publication. The B.A.P. for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the bankruptcy court for the District of Arizona did not abuse its...
Sixth Circuit affirmed U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio grant of summary judgment in favor of Chapter 13 debtor’s former employer in civil lawsuit alleging violation of the...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that, while 11 U.S.C. § 502(b)(2) disallowed a contractual make-whole payment to noteholder-creditors as unmatured interest or its economic...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed a bankruptcy court order dismissing a creditor's amended pleading upon concluding that § 523(a)(4) does not except debts of a trustee...
Judge(s):
Charles R. Wilson; Elizabeth L. Branch; and Barbara Lagoa
Agreeing with Bestwall LLC (DR), a chapter 11 debtor in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of North Carolina (BC), that it had rightly invoked collateral estoppel, the U.S. Court of...
Judge(s):
Kent A. Jordan; Cheryl A. Krause; and David J. Porter
A consent order allowing a creditor to file an amended proof of claim and setting a deadline for the debtors to object to the amended claim is res judicata as to counterclaims later raised by the...
The Fifth Circuit declined to invoke equitable mootness, as its review would not "affect the rights of parties not before the Court or the success of the plan." The Court then rejected the...
Judge(s):
Before Weiner, Graves, and Duncan, Circuit Judges. Stuart Kyle Duncan, Circuit Judge, authored the opinion.
11 U.S.C. § 1327(a), as applied in the Seventh Circuit under Holstein v. Brill, 987 F.2d 1268 (7th Cir. 1993), and In re Chappell, 984 F.2d 775, 782 (7th Cir. 1993), does not bar creditors from...
