The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (Sixth Circuit) affirmed the grant by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (BC), itself blessed by the U.S. District Court...
Judge(s):
R. Guy Cole Jr.; Bernice B. Donald; and Chad A. Readler
The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) affirmed the decision of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Washington (BC) that the debtors had not defaulted under...
BAP for 9th Cir. affirmed ruling of bankruptcy court (D. Nev.) dismissing chapter 13 case and adversary proceeding and denying as moot numerous motions of pro se debtor, including motion for...
The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) affirmed the denial by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California (BC) of the dispositive motion (Motion),...
Judge(s):
Scott H. Gan; William J. Lafferty III; and Gary A. Spraker
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Circuit) affirmed the denial by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Louisiana (BC), previously affirmed by the...
Judge(s):
Patrick E. Higginbotham; Jennifer W. Elrod; and Catharina Haynes
Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) affirmed the disallowance, by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California (BC), of the Debtor's claim of a homestead...
Judge(s):
Gary A. Spraker; Scott H. Gan; and William J. Lafferty III
A panel of the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Sixth Circuit (BAP or Panel) affirmed, "solely" on procedural grounds, the decision of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District...
Judge(s):
Beth A. Buchanan; Randall S. Mashburn; and Jessica E. Price Smith
As to whether § 1232 allows a Chapter 12 plan to compel a taxing authority to disgorge pre-petition withholdings, the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Eighth Circuit (BAP) held that this...
Judge(s):
Barry S. Schermer (Author); Charles L. Nail, Jr.; and Dennis R. Dow
The Panel dismissed the appeal, of Jennifer Skurko (Skurko) and Leslie Gentile (Gentile, and with Skurko, Defendants), of an order of the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (BAP), which reversed the...
Judge(s):
Helene N. White; Alice M. Batchelder; and Eric E. Murphy
Having previously treated Bankruptcy Rule 8002(a)(1)'s appellate deadline as jurisdictional, the Sixth Circuit here held it to be mandatory. The panel pointed to Supreme Court cases limning the...
Judge(s):
Jeffrey S. Sutton; Deborah L. Cook; and Helene N. White
