A debtor who did not assume a lease in his chapter 13 plan and who did not disclose ownership of any business-related property in his Schedules and Statement of Financial Affairs was estopped from...
The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (“7th Cir.”) affirmed the entry of summary judgment in favor of creditor LSQ Funding Group, L.C. (“LSQ”) and against Douglas Mann,...
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit affirmed a bankruptcy court's order confirming a debtor/appellee's chapter 11 plan over objections by an appellant/unsecured creditor. The...
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 9th Circuit BAP affirmed the Bankruptcy Court and held that the collection of discharged debt from debtor’s alter ego does not violate discharge injunction.
Participants in an ESOP plan established by an S corporation have claims against the plan, not against the corporation itself. As a result, the plan participants' claims were disallowed,
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 bankruptcy court properly granted the defendants' motion to dismiss a complaint under Rule 12(b)(6) because the debtor/plaintiff had participated with the defendants in the illegal conduct that...
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...
