The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit held a bankruptcy court did not abuse its discretion in (a) vacating an order awarding attorney fees to a chapter 7 trustee representing...
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...
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) affirmed the grant of summary judgment to Hyundai Steel Company (Hyundai) by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court
for the Central District of...
Judge(s):
Frederick P. Corbit; Robert J. Faris; and William J. Lafferty III
Applying a circuit rule--that a contempt order that contemplates imposing attorneys’ fees as a contempt sanction but does not specify the amount of any award is not a final, appealable order; the...
Judge(s):
Robin S. Rosenbaum; Elizabeth L. Branch; and Andrew L. Brasher
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) dismissed as equitably moot an appeal of the order confirming the liquidating plan of Artesian Future Technology, LLC (AFT) and...
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit discerned no error in the orders of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Oregon (BC) overruling the objections of Rita K....
Judge(s):
Frederick P. Corbit; Robert J. Faris; and Julia W. Brand
In this challenge by Kenneth Pettine (DR), a chapter 7 debtor, of the decision of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado (BC) granting the motion by a trustee (TR) for a charging...
Judge(s):
Robert H. Jacobvitz; Dale L. Somers; and Janice Loyd
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit held a bankruptcy court did not abuse its discretion in dismissing the debtor/appellant's chapter 12 case with a three-year bar to refiling....
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held a district court did not abuse its discretion in denying a pro se appellant's motion for an extension of time to file a notice of appeal.
Whether 11 U.S.C. § 365(f), or any other portion of Title 11, authorizes a bankruptcy court’s approval of a debtor’s
partial assignment of an executory contract? It does not.
Judge(s):
Per Curiam- Richman, Chief Judge, and Southwick and Oldham.
