The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld a bankruptcy court's order denying a creditor's motion to extend the deadline to file a non-dischargeability complaint. Its "prior panel...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit concluded the Appellants "waived their appeal" by failing to address the bankruptcy court's two reasons for denying their motion to compel...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit affirmed the district court’s and bankruptcy court’s decisions to deny Debtor’s appeal and motion to reconsider. The bankruptcy court did not...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit overturned a district court and reinstated a bankruptcy court's ruling that a liquidating trustee under a chapter 11 plan of liquidation could not...
The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (“6th Cir.”) dismissed the appeal of the Chapter 13 trustee for lack of jurisdiction, holding that the district court’s orders were...
Reversing the U.S. Bankruptcy and U.S. District Courts for the Southern District of Texas (BC and DC), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Circuit) deemed that the settlement and...
Faced with a dispute among unsecured and secured creditors over the allocation of equity in a reconstituted chapter 11 debtor, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Circuit) found the...
Judge(s):
Edith H. Jones; Kurt D. Engelhardt; and Andrew S. Oldham
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld a district court's sua sponte dismissal, with prejudice, of a pro se plaintiff/debtor's in forma pauperis complaint against a bankruptcy...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a bankruptcy court's order confirming a chapter 13 plan over a creditor's objections. Most notably, the court held, as a matter of first...
Judge(s):
Mary M. Schroeder, William A. Fletcher, and Consuelo M. Callahan