The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, reversing a district court, held a bankruptcy court correctly rejected a request to bar a debtor's discharge for making a knowing and fraudulent...
In this non-precedential per curiuam opinion, the Third Circuit affirmed the decision of the District Court dismissing the pro se debtor, William Kaetz's, complaint against a student loan servicer...
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. 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 granting a summary judgment finding a debtor owed his sister-in-law a non-dischargeable debt based on his...
As had the immediately lower court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (Circuit) affirmed the decision of the U.S, Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida (BC) not to...
Judge(s):
Robin S. Rosenbaum; Jill A. Pryor; and Britt Grant
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a bankruptcy court's post-trial judgment excepting a debt from discharge. A dissenting judge would have remanded on one issue-whether the...
The Fifth Circuit found that the questions on appeal to the district court (from a bankruptcy court’s order denying a complaint filed under both section 523 and section 727) contained questions...
Due to the lack of due process resulting from the debtors' failure to include a proper mailing address for a debt, no part of the creditor's claim was discharged under 11 U.S.C. § 727.
Judge(s):
Richard R. Clifton, Holly A. Thomas, and Roopali H. Desai, Circuit Judges
