BAP for 10th Cir. reversed ruling of bankruptcy court (D. NM) after bankruptcy court entered defense verdict against plaintiff chapter 7 trustee on 547 and 548 claims. Post-confirmation payments by...
Publishing so as to explain the role of a bankruptcy court to set the commitment period during which a debtor must pay its projected disposable income or its value in a subchapter V case, the U.S....
Judge(s):
Scott H. Gan; Laura S. Taylor; and William J. Lafferty III
A second review appeal and cross-appeal from the decisions of the U.S. Bankruptcy and District Courts for the Southern District of Mississippi (BC and DC) in which each party raised four issues,...
Judge(s):
Stephen A. Higginson; James L. Dennis; and Gregg J. Costa
Affirmed the District Court's dismissal of a challenge, asserted by a former shareholder of the Debtor, to the bankruptcy court's Chapter 11 confirmation order, finding in part that: "if the...
The Bankruptcy Code does not require the debtor, an energy company whose primary business is the production of natural gas, to obtain FERC's approval of its chapter 11 plan or its decision to...
The U.S Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit: (1) affirmed financial sanctions ordered by the bankruptcy court and ratified by the district court on doctors who asserted causes of action placed...
Judge(s):
Jerry E. Smith; Patrick E. Higginbotham; and James C. Ho
The Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel affirmed the bankruptcy court's denial of the debtor's motion to enforce the discharge injunction based on the holding that the interest at issue was a...
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Tenth Circuit (BAP) found no abuse of discretion in the "common-sense" decision of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado (BC) to order...
Judge(s):
Terrence L. Michael; Cathleen D. Parker; and William T. Thurman
A Subchapter V plan cannot be confirmed unless it complies with 11 U.S.C. § 1123(b)(5). Thus, the debtor's plan, which did not require the reorganized debtor to make periodic payments to a...
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
