Bankruptcy court did not err in converting chapter 13 case to chapter 7 where debtor consistently failed to comply with bankruptcy court orders and demonstrated bad faith, nor did the court violate...
The U.S. Circuit Court for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a bankruptcy court's rulings (a) dismissing a debtor's chapter 13 petition for bad faith under the circuit's "totality of the circumstances"...
Judge(s):
FLETCHER and JOHNSTONE, Circuit Judges, and RAKOFF, District Judge
Proceeds from embezzlement litigation was not collateral of a loan where the security agreement did not describe the litigation. Pennsylvania’s Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code ("UCC"),...
Avoidance under 11 U.S.C. § 724(a) of the portion of a tax lien for penalties does not alter the priority of the amount of the tax authority's unavoided lien claim against the proceeds of the...
Judge(s):
Susan P. Graber, Roopali H. Desai, and Ana de Alba, Circuit Judges
In a per curiam opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (Circuit) found no error in the decision of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (BC) denying relief from...
The Circuit Court affirmed the district court’s order affirming a judgment of the bankruptcy court, and remanded for further proceedings, in a fraudulent transfer action in which a jury...
Judge(s):
Richard R. Clifton, Gabriel P. Sanchez, and Edward R. Korman,
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held a bankruptcy court did not err in approving a Chapter 7 Trustee's settlement of legal claims filed by Appellants against the debtor and third...
In this direct appeal, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Circuit) affirmed the ruling of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas (BC) that the trustee for two...
Judge(s):
Kyle S. Duncan; Jennifer W. Elrod; and Irma C. Ramirez
McIntyre had business disputes with Fangman. After interpleading the amount he admitted owing in a state court, he filed a pro se Chapter 13 bankruptcy in which he challenged the state court's...
Circuit court reversed the district court's reversal of the bankruptcy court denial of a group of creditors', "Falcon," "Amendment of Informal Proofs of Claim." The bankruptcy found that Falcon had...
