The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (Circuit) affirmed the grant of summary judgment by the U.S. District Court for Southern District of Indiana (DC) to Southwest Credit Systems (SW),...
Judge(s):
Daniel A. Manion; Diane P. Wood; and Michael B. Brennan
Per curiam, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Circuit) affirmed the opinion of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas (DC) affirming adjudication of claims for...
Judge(s):
Patrick E. Higginbotham; Stephen A. Higginson; and S. Kyle Duncan
Affirming the U.S. District and Bankruptcy Courts for the Northern District of Illinois (DC and BC), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (Circuit) found: (1) it lacked jurisdiction to...
Judge(s):
Diane S. Sykes; Joel Flaum; and Michael B. Brennan
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Tenth Circuit (BAP) affirmed a bankruptcy court's decision that valued the claim of a couple (CRs) at $458,470 and found it nondischargeable under §...
Judge(s):
Dale L. Somers; Robert H. Jacobvitz; and Janice D. Lloyd
The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) affirmed the grant of appellees' motion for summary judgment as to certain claims and the dismissal of any others by the U.S. Bankruptcy...
A creditor required to file notice to perfect its interests in a debtor's property under 11 U.S.C. § 546(b) must do so before the non-bankruptcy limitations period expires. Section 546(b)(2)...
In an opinion most of the bankruptcy court's judgment as to a creditor's violation of the automatic stay, but vacating its denial of attorneys' fees based on the "technical" nature of these...
Judge(s):
Robert J. Faris; Julia W. Brand; and Gary A. Spraker
Affirming a grant of summary judgment by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Nevada (BC), the U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) agreed with its conclusion as to...
Judge(s):
Scott H. Gan; Laura S. Taylor; and William J. Lafferty III
More than two decades after the shareholders of NationsBank and BankAmerica first filed securities law class actions after these two merged to form Bank of America Corp. (1999) and nearly two...
Judge(s):
James B. Loken; Jane L. Kelly; and Ralph P. Erickson
Confronting a byzantine fact pattern in but the latest aspect of a “multi-forum Whack-a-Mole tournament," the U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) affirmed a bankruptcy...
Judge(s):
Christopher M. Klein; Laura S. Taylor; and Julia W. Brand
