The Fifth Circuit certified to the Mississippi Supreme Court the narrow issue of whether the Mississippi champerty statute (Miss. Code Ann. § 97-9-11) voids the assignment of a cause of action...
Wading into three areas of law-the Bankruptcy Code, the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), and Illinois state law—the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (Circuit) concluded that the...
Resolving consolidated appeals by A&D Property Consultants LLC (AD) of a decision by the circuit's bankruptcy appellate panel (BAP) affirming two bankruptcy court (BC) orders, the U.S. Court of...
Judge(s):
Sidney R. Thomas; Eric D. Miller; and Richard D. Bennett
As had the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania (DC), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (Circuit) affirmed orders issued by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the...
Judge(s):
David J. Porter; Tamika Montgomery-Reeves; and Jane Richards Roth
District court's grant of summary judgment to the City of Phoenix affirmed. Debtor-plaintiff's claim against the City could have been brought at the time of her bankruptcy petition, and any...
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the tax court's determination that the consent order entered between the IRS and Breland during the pendency of his chapter 11 bankruptcy did not fix Breland's tax...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held a bankruptcy court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to allow a creditor-appellant's proposed second amended claim filed 11 months after...
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Sixth Circuit held a bankruptcy court erred in granting summary judgment to a debtor/appellee on a creditor/appellant's claim to except a debt from her...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held a bankruptcy court did not err in its application of the "two-dismissal rule" in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1)(B) to a third motion...
OPINION NOT PRECEDENTIAL - Administrative expense claim struck because mediation communications in support of the administrative expense claim were not admissible. The parties had not waived the...
Judge(s):
CHAGARES, Chief Judge, PORTER and SCIRICA, Circuit Judges
