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...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed a district court's determination that a bankruptcy court did not abuse its discretion in denying fees to a chapter 11 debtor's counsel based...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (Circuit) affirmed the dismissal of the decision of the circuit's Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (BAP) to affirm the partial dismissal of an adversary...
Judge(s):
Sidney R. Thomas; Gabriel P. Sanchez; and Consuelo Callahan
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held a bankruptcy court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to allow a creditor-appellant's proposed second amended claim filed 11 months after...
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Sixth Circuit held a bankruptcy court erred in granting summary judgment to a debtor/appellee on a creditor/appellant's claim to except a debt from her...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held a bankruptcy court did not err in its application of the "two-dismissal rule" in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1)(B) to a third motion...
Members of the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors who were removed from the Committee by the bankruptcy court did not have standing to appeal the bankruptcy court's order that removed them...
