The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held a bankruptcy court did not err in granting a chapter 7 debtor's motion to reopen a case to avoid a judicial lien on the debtor's LLC...
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel and bankruptcy court's summary judgment in favor of the government in a chapter 7 debtor's adversary proceeding to determine...
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...
Because the Debtor's own actions and statements to his creditor obscured the applicability of the discharge order from his prior bankruptcy - which did not list or disclose the debtor's debt owed...
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. ...
A creditor, including a federal agency (here, the Social Security Administration), may recoup amounts overpaid to a debtor after the debtor has received a bankruptcy discharge if the agency's claim...
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit held a bankruptcy court properly granted a motion to clarify or amend a prior order granting stay relief when the debtor's spouse, at a...
Business debt to bank is dischargeable under facts of this case, which failed to establish the required elements under 523(a), namely: (a) a reasonable investigation would have revealed prior...
Following the Supreme Court's decision in Bartenwerfer v. Buckley, 589 U.S. 69 (2023), and Texas law establishing a person's liability for another's misrepresentations, an arbitrator's findings of...
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) affirmed the decision of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California granting summary judgment excepting the debt...
Judge(s):
William J. Lafferty III; Robert J. Faris; and Gary A. Spraker
