Once a final judgment was entered by default against a partnership, with its former general partners' knowledge, they were not entitled to have that judgment set aside after prevailing on a related...
Reversing the BAP, the 9th Circuit, with a concurrence, ruled that 11 U.S.C. § 727(e)(1) is a statute of limitations, not a statute of repose, The debtor's failure to plead the statute of...
Affirming the decision of the district court (D. Minn.) that a creditor's debt was nondischargeable under § 523(a)(2)(A). The evidence showed that the debtor had defrauded the creditor by, among...
As to the threshold requirements of Rule 60(b), the court found that Wells failed to timely file its motion and that granting relief to Wells would prejudice the bona fide purchaser at the...
Judge(s):
Before Judges Niemeyer, King, and Duncan, Circuit Judges.
A bankruptcy court has the general authority to impose a filing injunction after a chapter 13 debtor moves for voluntary dismissal under 11 U.S.C.S. § 1307(b). However, the injunction imposed...
The Fifth Circuit affirmed the bankruptcy court's denial of his motion to reopen his Chapter 7 bankruptcy so that he could file a Rule 60(b)(4) motion to vacate a previously uncontested lift stay...
Appellate standing in bankruptcy is limited to “persons aggrieved” by an order of the bankruptcy court. Appeals are limited to persons ‘whose rights or interests are directly and adversely...
The Second Circuit reversed the decisions of the District Court and Bankruptcy Court imposing sanctions on a debtor's attorney for a repeat chapter 11 filing on the eve of a foreclosure sale and in...
The Order denying Debtor's Second Reconsideration of the Bankruptcy Court's order sustaining the Chapter 7 Trustee's objection to certain claimed exemptions is Affirmed.
Auberto Nieves Guzmán and Annette Nazario Rodríguez Debtors appeal from the order denying their motion for reconsideration of the order sustaining the chap objection to certain claimed...
Judge(s):
BAP: Feeney, Finkle and Fagone. USBC-Puerto Rico: Tester
