In this one of two related opinions, the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) reversed the decision of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California (BC) to...
Judge(s):
Laura S. Taylor; Robert J. Faris; and William J. Lafferty III
The U.S. Bankruptcy appellate Panel of the Tenth Circuit (BAP) reversed the denial of two chapter 7 debtors’ exemption claim, pursuant to section 522 of the Code and New Mexico state law, in the...
Judge(s):
Michael E. Romero; Dale L. Somers; and Cathleen D. Parker
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit vacated and remanded the decision of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of California (BC) sustaining an exemption objection...
Judge(s):
William J. Lafferty III; Julia W. Brand; and Laura S. Taylor
As to whether § 1232 allows a Chapter 12 plan to compel a taxing authority to disgorge pre-petition withholdings, the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Eighth Circuit (BAP) held that this...
Judge(s):
Barry S. Schermer (Author); Charles L. Nail, Jr.; and Dennis R. Dow
Tenth Cir. reversed ruling of BAP, which had affirmed bankruptcy court (D. Colo.). Bankruptcy court entered summary judgment in favor of chapter 7 trustee on preference suit to avoid transfer of...
The bankruptcy court abused its discretion by reconsidering a claim disallowance under section 502(j) and FRCP 60(b)(6)) despite finding that the claimant lacked a cogent excuse for failing to...
Whether property has value to estate determined at time of proposed abandonment. Although property had no equity as of petition date, Debtor's later motion to compel abandonment denied where...
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reserved decision of Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Ohio, which discharged debt related to civil judgment for willful and malicious injury...
1) A bankruptcy court cannot alter the "chapter 13 bargain" by confirming a modification to a debtor's chapter 13 plan, over the debtor's objection, that captures the appreciation to a debtor's...
Judge(s):
FARIS, BRAND, and HERCHER (the Honorable David W. Hercher, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District ofOregon, sitting by designation)
