On the first case, the Court concluded that the bankruptcy court had jurisdiction over the fee motion but that the fee motion was untimely, and accordingly, the Court affirmed. As to the second...
In this non-precedential opinion, the Third Circuit affirmed the decision of the District Court finding that the Bankruptcy Court lacked good cause to reopen the former confirmed chapter 11 case of...
Judge(s):
CHAGARES, Chief Judge, MATEY and FUENTES, Circuit Judges
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed lower court decisions district court denying a motion to set aside a default judgment under Rule 60(b)(4) of the Federal Rules of Civil...
Judge(s):
Larsen, Boggs and McKeague. Opinion by Larsen. Dissent by McKeague.
A panel for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision of the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel holding that the debtor was allowed to exempt "100% of FMV" of a property as a homestead...
The Fifth Circuit certified to the Mississippi Supreme Court the narrow issue of whether the Mississippi champerty statute (Miss. Code Ann. § 97-9-11) voids the assignment of a cause of action...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held (a) the Minor Children had Article III standing to appeal from a bankruptcy court's decision denying their motion for a "comfort order" to...
Wading into three areas of law-the Bankruptcy Code, the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), and Illinois state law—the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (Circuit) concluded that the...
In this non-precedential ruling, the Third Circuit affirmed the decisions of the District and Bankruptcy Courts annulling the automatic stay and dismissing the pro se debtors’ civil action...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (Circuit) held that Ricky Hughes (DR), a former chapter 13 debtor whose first plan payment dated nearly 10 years earlier, had the standing to...
Judge(s):
Ralph R. Erickson; Michael J. Melloy; and David Stras
