BAP for 9th Cir. affirmed ruling of bankruptcy court (CD Cal.) denying chapter 13 debtor's motion for reconsideration of order deny debtor's motion to vacate relief from stay order. Order providing...
A bankruptcy court could not approve a post-confirmation settlement agreement that modified the terms of the confirmed chapter 11 plan without complying with section 1127(b) or voiding the plan...
A default judgment issued as a sanction has preclusive effect for purposes of determining dischargeability of a debt, but where a single judgment involves two underlying debts, the court must...
Judge(s):
POOLER, CHIN, Circuit Judges, and VITALIANO, District Judge
BAP for 9th Cir. affirmed ruling of bankruptcy court (SD Cal.) overruling debtors' claim objection. Statute of limitations was continuously tolled by applicable state law during pendency of...
BAP for 9th Cir. affirmed ruling of bankruptcy court (D. Az.) confirming chapter 11 plan. Treatment of unsecured creditors satisfied 1129(a)(7) requirement that unsecured creditors would receive at...
BAP for 9th Circuit dismissed appeal for lack of jurisdiction. Bankruptcy court (ND California) dismissed appellant chapter 13 debtor's bankruptcy case while appeal was pending, mooting appeal.
BAP for 9th Circuit affirmed bankruptcy court (D. Haw.) judgment of nondischargeability of contempt, fraud, and conversion. Evidence was clear and convincing that Debtors knew about preliminary...
Sixth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (BAP) dismissed a Debtor's appeal of a bankruptcy court order which granted the Chapter 7 Trustee's motion to sell real estate owned by a single member...
Judge(s):
Harrison, Price Smith and Wise, Bankruptcy Appellate Panel Judges
Based on the nature of in rem jurisdiction and the limitations on the court’s and Receiver’s equitable power, the Fifth Circuit concluded that the district court lacked authority to approve the...
Judge(s):
Before JONES, CLEMENT, and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.
Secured creditor group was not entitled, under the confirmed Plan of Reorganization (which it had accepted), to post-petition default interest (even though the group was fully secured and its debt...
