U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) affirmed the grant of summary judgment by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California (BC), declaring that the...
Judge(s):
Gary A. Spraker; Frederick P. Corbit; and William J. Lafferty III
Section 523(a)(19) of the Bankruptcy Code does not require a judgment creditor to re-litigate securities violations in bankruptcy court if a court of competent jurisdiction has entered a judgment...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit concluded that a bankruptcy court did not abuse its discretion in declining to exercise residual jurisdiction over claims alleged in an adversary...
The Sixth Circuit affirmed an order of the bankruptcy court, holding that several mortgage lenders had standing to appeal but failed to meet the person-aggrieved test because they lacked a direct...
The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (BAP) for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the bankruptcy judge's denial of a debtor defendant's motion for attorneys' fees under Section 523(d) after the debtor prevailed...
The bankruptcy court properly held that the debtors' obligation to plaintiff was not dischargeable under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(6) because the evidence showed that the male debtor had intentionally...
In an opinion affirming a contempt finding by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois (BC) affirmed by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (DC),...
Judge(s):
Michael Y. Scudder; Thomas Kirsch; and Candace Jackson-Akiwumi
After the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas did not approve all fees requested in a law firm's fee application, the district court affirmed most of the fee reductions. On...
A bankruptcy trustee's action to avoid a transfer under 11 U.S.C. § 544(b) and Cal. Civ. Code § 3439.09 nearly seven years after the transfer occurred was timely because California law provides...
The Ninth Circuit's Bankruptcy Appellate Panel held the bankruptcy court properly dismissed with prejudice a judgment creditor's claim to except a debt from the debtors' discharge based on...
