A party's judicial estoppel claim cannot create a previously unrecognized exception to the long-standing jurisdictional rule that generally appellate courts have authority to rule only on final...
The Fourth Circuit held that "property owned as a tenancy by the entirety may not be exempted from an individual debtor’s bankruptcy estate under 11 U.S.C. § 522(b)(3)(B) to the extent of the...
Judge(s):
Circuit Judge Toby J. Heytens, Circuit Judge DeAndrea Gist Benjamin, and Elizabeth W. Hanes, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held a bankruptcy court did not abuse its discretion in awarding compensation to a law firm for work performed in a Singapore proceeding. The...
As had the tria, court below, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (Circuit) affirmed orders issued by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Nevada (BC) that denied the claim of...
Judge(s):
Mary H. Murguia; Salvador Mendoza Jr.; and Ana de Alba
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed an order dismissing a civil lawsuit filed pro se by the Plaintiff/Appellant against the federal government in the U.S. Court of Federal...
While agreeing that a strict application of 11 U.S.C. § 109(a) would prohibit an individual who does live in the United States from being a debtor in a Chapter 15 proceeding, the Eleventh Circuit...
As had the immediately lower court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (Circuit) affirmed the decision of the U.S, Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida (BC) not to...
Judge(s):
Robin S. Rosenbaum; Jill A. Pryor; and Britt Grant
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the District Court and Bankruptcy Court holdings that the chapter 11 debtors' motion to bring malpractice claims against their bankruptcy counsel was...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a bankruptcy court's post-trial judgment excepting a debt from discharge. A dissenting judge would have remanded on one issue-whether the...
In this non-bankruptcy opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Circuit) affirmed the decision of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas (DC) not to award a...
Judge(s):
Leslie H. Southwick; James L. Dennis; and Carl E. Stewart
