The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) affirmed the decision of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California (BC) denying a creditor's motion for ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (Circuit) affirmed the decision of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee (DC) dismissing, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil...
Judge(s):
Stephanie D. Davis; Jeffrey Sutton; and Joan Larsen
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
The sole member of a Chapter 7 debtor lacks standing to appeal an order that compelled him to give the trustee access to and control of financial and other systems and records used in the debtor's...
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
The record facts, framed by the external context and circumstances, make plain that there is no error in the judgments of the able bankruptcy and district courts. The lender did not engage in fraud...
Judge(s):
Before Higginbotham, Southwick, and Higginson, Circuit Judges. Patrick E. Higginbotham, Circuit Judge
The Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel affirmed the denial of the serial debtor's chapter 13 plan and dismissal of the case with a 2-year ban on filing a bankruptcy petition.
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit affirmed a bankruptcy court's orders dismissing a chapter 11 case pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 1112(b) and denying a creditor's pending motions...
Under the principles of claim preclusion, a prior Rule 12(b)(6) dismissal of the debtor's claims by the United States District Court precluded the debtor from reasserting the same claims in...
