The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) affirmed the denial by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California (BC) of the dispositive motion (Motion),...
Judge(s):
Scott H. Gan; William J. Lafferty III; and Gary A. Spraker
US Bank, as trustee ("Secured Creditor") evidenced its right to enforce deed of trust. 11 U.S.C. Sec. 362(d)(4) inclusion of "scheme" means "an intentional artful plot or plan." Thus it is not...
Creditor's claim did not assert a pre-petition state law cause of action separate from the Bankruptcy Code. Rather, the claim arose from the initial bankruptcy filing. Therefore, the claim is...
Walls v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., 276 F.3d 502 (9th Cir. 2002), does not preclude a Fair Debt Collection Practices Claim Act (15 U.S.C. § 1692 et seq.) claim by a debtor who receives a discharge...
Judge(s):
Kim McLane Wardlaw, Deborah L. Cook,* and Danielle J. Hunsaker, Circuit Judges (The Honorable Deborah L. Cook, United States Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, sitting by designation)
The Panel dismissed the appeal, of Jennifer Skurko (Skurko) and Leslie Gentile (Gentile, and with Skurko, Defendants), of an order of the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (BAP), which reversed the...
Judge(s):
Helene N. White; Alice M. Batchelder; and Eric E. Murphy
The Ninth Circuit affirmed the bankruptcy court's finding that one real property held by the debtor and his non-debtor spouse was community property based on the California community property...
The BAP affirmed the bankruptcy court (C.D. Cal.) in full in that no cause for dismissal existed to allow the Debtors to dismiss their Chapter 7 under 11 U.S.C. § 707(a). The BAP noted that the...
Wells Fargo (WF), the panel held, did not suffer an uncompensated taking under the Constitution’s Takings Clause (TC). Below, WF had attacked a foreclosure sale by a homeowners’ association...
Judge(s):
Mary H. Murguia; Eric D. Miller; and George Caram Steeh III
The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel determined that the Trustee's objection was correct; however, not for the reasons presented by the Trustee. The Debtors were not entitled to any Nevada exemption...
Judge(s):
Honorable Faris, Brand, and Gan, Bankruptcy Judges
Having previously treated Bankruptcy Rule 8002(a)(1)'s appellate deadline as jurisdictional, the Sixth Circuit here held it to be mandatory. The panel pointed to Supreme Court cases limning the...
Judge(s):
Jeffrey S. Sutton; Deborah L. Cook; and Helene N. White
