The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (Circuit) held that Roth Individual Retirement Accounts (Roth IRAs), like customary Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and 401(k) accounts, are...
Judge(s):
Charles R. Wilson; Barbara Lagoa; and Edward E. Carnes
The difference in Chapter 11 quarterly fees collected in UST versus Bankruptcy Administrator (BA) districts following the Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 2017 did not violate the uniformity requirement...
Affirming the U.S. District and Bankruptcy Courts for the Northern District of Illinois (DC and BC), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (Circuit) found: (1) it lacked jurisdiction to...
Judge(s):
Diane S. Sykes; Joel Flaum; and Michael B. Brennan
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (BAP) affirmed the denial of an order denying the contempt motion filed by chapter 13 debtor Jerome Perryman (DR) against his ex-wife, Karen Dal Poggetto (PG),...
Judge(s):
Julia W. Brand; Robert J. Faris; and Gary A. Spraker
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
In an opinion disposing of two appeals by one creditor, Hadi Zeghuzi (CR), of the Sunny Hills Aquatic Club (DR), the debtor - one of an order issued by the bankruptcy court (BC) sustaining the DR's...
Judge(s):
Gary A. Spraker; Robert J. Faris; and Julia W. Brand
The bankruptcy court (BC), the Third Circuit (Panel) resolved, had misapplied the framework limned in a prior circuit opinion for analyzing the nature of the provided services of some insurers to...
Judge(s):
Julio M. Fuentes; Peter J. Phipps; and Cheryl A. Krause
Albeit agreeing with the district court that it (as well as itself) had statutory subject matter jurisdiction, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (Panel) concluded that the district...
Judge(s):
James B. Loken; Steven L. Grasz; and Jonathan A. Kobes
In this latest chapter of a long-running dispute over farmland (Property) once owned by John and Lorie Finstad (Finstads)—and their second federal appeal involving that parcel’s ownership—the...
Judge(s):
James B. Loken; William D. Benton; and Jane L. Kelly
Echoing a similar ruling in a separate case, the U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) affirmed orders (1) overruling the objection by Carol Lee DePuydt-Meier (DR) to a proof...
Judge(s):
Gary A. Spraker; Robert J. Faris; and Julia W. Brand