The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the bankruptcy court's decision awarding fees to the chapter 13 debtor's attorney and modifying the chapter 13 plan to pay the fees, over the objection...
Judge(s):
CLIFTON and SANCHEZ, Circuit Judges, and KORMAN,** District Judge
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (Circuit) affirmed the decision of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Florida (BC) concluding that the individual...
Judge(s):
William H. Pryor Jr.; Jill A. Pryor; and Stanley Marcus
The Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of the case but do so on different grounds from those articulated by the Bankruptcy Court. The dual requirements of § 1307(c)(5) were satisfied. The...
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a post-petition increase in the debtor's equity in property in excess of the applicable homestead exemption, that occurs prior to conversion of the...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (Circuit) dismissed the appeals of the memorandum and order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa (DC) by two...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed a district court's order dismissing Appellant's Fair Debt Collection Practices Act claim against a debt collector Appellee acting on behalf...
Circuit Court affirmed the lower courts' dismissal of pro se debtor's adversary proceeding which sought to discharge her student loans for failure to timely effectuate service on the United States...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit held a bankruptcy court did not err in concluding a debtor, who operated a property rental business, could not exempt real property from the...
The Rooker-Feldman doctrine prevents a federal bankruptcy court from reviewing a state court's decision that a debt owed to a casino was not discharged in an individual debtor's chapter 7 case. ...
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit held a bankruptcy court abused its discretion in issuing monetary sanctions sua sponte to chapter 13 debtors' counsel due to counsel's...
