The Third Circuit Court of Appeal affirmed the district court, which had affirmed the bankruptcy court's ruling holding certain entities that were parties to the bankruptcy and a non-party...
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court's judgment of conviction of Samuel Bankman-Fried. The district court’s evidentiary and procedural rulings and jury instructions...
A party, including a creditor objecting to confirmation of a Chapter 11 plan, does not have standing to appeal a bankruptcy court's order unless the party would materially benefit from the relief...
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the confirmation of Chapter 13 plans that provided for the payment of Debtors’ attorneys' fees before or at the same time as nonpriority unsecured...
Relying on the harmless error standard in Rule 9005, the court bypassed the issue of whether a bankruptcy court may order the substantive consolidation of two or more entities without the...
Judge(s):
WILLIAM PRYOR, Chief Judge, and BRASHER and ABUDU, Circuit Judges
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the District Court's denial of a creditor's interlocutory appeal of the bankruptcy court's order denying arbitration, though on different grounds than...
The Fourth Circuit affirmed an order denying confirmation of a Chapter 13 plan, which proposed to pay off loans on three luxury vehicles while paying unsecured creditors less than 8 cents on the...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld a district court's order staying and enjoining Plaintiffs/Appellants' continued litigation against Defendant/Appellee Puerto Rico Police...
A bankruptcy court needs only to "canvass the issues and see whether the settlement falls below the lowest point in the range of reasonableness" when deciding whether to approve a settlement, not...
Judge(s):
EID and MURPHY, Circuit Judges, and TEETER, District Judge
The Fifth Circuit affirmed the lower courts' rulings that the automatic stay was not violated when the debtor's mortgage servicer went forward with a foreclosure sale after the debtor filed his...
