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In this non-precedential ruling, the Third Circuit affirmed the decisions of the District and Bankruptcy Courts annulling the automatic stay and dismissing the pro se debtors’ civil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
Resolving consolidated appeals by A&D Property Consultants LLC (AD) of a decision by the circuit's bankruptcy appellate panel (BAP) affirming two bankruptcy court (BC) orders, the U.S. Court of...
Judge(s):
Sidney R. Thomas; Eric D. Miller; and Richard D. Bennett
As had the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania (DC), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (Circuit) affirmed orders issued by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the...
Judge(s):
David J. Porter; Tamika Montgomery-Reeves; and Jane Richards Roth
Finding that the text of Illinois’ version of the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act set up multiple ways in which a business can be insolvent for purposes of fraudulent transfer liability, the...
