Affirming the U.S. Bankruptcy Court and U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas (BC and DC), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit deemed the payment of a $3.3 million...
Judge(s):
Jerry E. Smith; Patrick E. Higginbotham; and Kurt D. Engelhardt
The Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel affirmed the bankruptcy court's finding that sale proceeds were cash collateral and its approval of a stipulation with the IRS.
The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) affirmed the order of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Nevada (BC) converting the chapter 11 case of NTI-NC Inc. (DR), both...
Judge(s):
Julia W. Brand; Frederick P. Corbit; and William J. Lafferty III
The Court of Appeals held that the bankruptcy court’s handling of approval of the settlement of class claims, “predicated on 28 U.S.C. § 1334(a) or (b), rather than in the court where the...
Judge(s):
Judge Edith H. Jones, Judge James C. Ho, and Judge Cory T. Wilson
Affirming the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California (BC), the U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) discerned no error in its avoidance of the judicial...
Affirming the denial of the motion to compel abandonment of the estate's interest in her home by Machele Goetz (Goetz) by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Missouri (BC), the...
Judge(s):
Shon Hastings; Michael E. Ridgway; and Anita L. Shodeen
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Eighth Circuit (the “BAP”) affirmed the decision of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Iowa (the “Bankruptcy Court”) granting...
Agreeing with the U.S. Bankruptcy and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois (BC and DC), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (Circuit) found no error in the...
Judge(s):
Michael B. Brennan; Michael Y. Scudder; and Thomas Kirsch
Like the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (DC), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit concluded that Kenneth Pucillo (Pucillo) lacked Article III standing to...
Judge(s):
Michael B. Brennan; Thomas Kirsch; and John Z. Lee
Consolidating appeals arising out of the chapter 7 case of Richard Sharif (DR), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (Circuit) affirmed the bankruptcy court’s rulings: denying the...
Judge(s):
Frank H. Easterbrook; Diane P. Wood; and Thomas L. Kirsch II