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...
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
The Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel affirmed the bankruptcy court's summary judgment ruling in favor of plaintiff on plaintiff's non-dischargeability claims under sections 523(a)(2)(A) and...
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
Resolving a "labyrinth of appeals" stemming from a prepetition breach of contract claim brought by one company against two subsidiaries of an admitted "single enterprise" in federal court based on...
Judge(s):
Michael B. Brennan; Michael Y. Scudder; and Thomas Kirsch
The Fifth Circuit affirmed the lower courts' ruling that the Debtor should be denied a discharge generally under 11 USC 727(a)(3) and (4), and denied a discharge as to particular debts owed to a...
Affirming the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the First Circuit (BAP), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (Circuit) reaffirmed the general jurisdictional mootness rule--when an issue...
Judge(s):
O. Rogeriee Thompson; Bruce M. Selya; and William J. Kayatta Jr.