The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the Tenth Circuit BAP and affirmed the Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Mexico after determining that Chuza Oil Co, lacked a cognizable interest...
Applying a circuit rule--that a contempt order that contemplates imposing attorneys’ fees as a contempt sanction but does not specify the amount of any award is not a final, appealable order; the...
Judge(s):
Robin S. Rosenbaum; Elizabeth L. Branch; and Andrew L. Brasher
1) Under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, a state-court judgment creditor is not guaranteed an allowed claim for the state-court judgment once the debtor files for bankruptcy relief. The state court...
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held a bankruptcy court did not err in converting a chapter 11 case to chapter 7. The court explained a conversion order is final as it resolves a discrete...
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) dismissed as equitably moot an appeal of the order confirming the liquidating plan of Artesian Future Technology, LLC (AFT) and...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held a bankruptcy court did not err in concluding the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and the doctrines of res judicata and collateral estoppel did not bar...
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that it did not have jurisdiction to rule on the Eastern District of New York Court's order vacating the Bankruptcy Court's entry of...
In this challenge by Kenneth Pettine (DR), a chapter 7 debtor, of the decision of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado (BC) granting the motion by a trustee (TR) for a charging...
Judge(s):
Robert H. Jacobvitz; Dale L. Somers; and Janice Loyd
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit held a bankruptcy court did not abuse its discretion in dismissing the debtor/appellant's chapter 12 case with a three-year bar to refiling....
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held a district court did not abuse its discretion in denying a pro se appellant's motion for an extension of time to file a notice of appeal.
