In this non-precedential per curiuam opinion, the Third Circuit affirmed the decision of the District Court dismissing the pro se debtor, William Kaetz's, complaint against a student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...
As had the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania (DC), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (Circuit) affirmed orders issued by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the...
Judge(s):
David J. Porter; Tamika Montgomery-Reeves; and Jane Richards Roth
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...
Res judicata applies to a chapter 13 plan that is later properly modified so that creditors cannot appeal previously determined matters that were not altered by the modified plan. Thus, res...
In a split opinion (Chief Judge Pryor, dissenting) -- in which both the majority and the dissent focused on the meaning of the word "is" -- the Eleventh Circuit held that 11 U.S.C. § 1125(a)(3)...
Judge(s):
WILLIAM PRYOR, Chief Judge, and LUCK and ED CARNES, Cir-cuit Judges
Joining the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Tenth Circuits, whose decisions the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois (BC) had followed, the U.S. Court of Appeals for...
Judge(s):
Thomas Kirsch; Frank Easterbrook; and Diane S. Sykes
In this non-precedential Summary Order, based on principles of res judicata, the Second Circuit affirmed the decision of the District Court affirming the decision of the Bankruptcy Court that...
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
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
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
