In affirming the lower courts, the Fifth Circuit holds that state court litigation in Kansas can and should proceed unaffected by a reopened chapter 7 bankruptcy case after the Chapter 7 trustee...
The Fourth Circuit held that § 327(a) does not permit former trustees to file post-hoc applications to employ professionals for work done while they were trustees if the case has already been...
A panel for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision of the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel holding that the debtor was allowed to exempt "100% of FMV" of a property as a homestead...
The Fifth Circuit certified to the Mississippi Supreme Court the narrow issue of whether the Mississippi champerty statute (Miss. Code Ann. § 97-9-11) voids the assignment of a cause of action...
Wading into three areas of law-the Bankruptcy Code, the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), and Illinois state law—the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (Circuit) concluded that the...
Debtor's appeal of a settlement order entered by the bankruptcy court was dismissed due to his appeal being filed 11 months late. Furthermore, his appeal of a denied request for relief under FRCP...
Judge(s):
Catharina Haynes, James E. Graves Jr., Stephen A. Higginson
In this non-precedential ruling, the Third Circuit affirmed the decisions of the District and Bankruptcy Courts annulling the automatic stay and dismissing the pro se debtors’ civil action...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (Circuit) held that Ricky Hughes (DR), a former chapter 13 debtor whose first plan payment dated nearly 10 years earlier, had the standing to...
Judge(s):
Ralph R. Erickson; Michael J. Melloy; and David Stras
Resolving consolidated appeals by A&D Property Consultants LLC (AD) of a decision by the circuit's bankruptcy appellate panel (BAP) affirming two bankruptcy court (BC) orders, the U.S. Court of...
Judge(s):
Sidney R. Thomas; Eric D. Miller; and Richard D. Bennett
