In this non-precedential per curiuam opinion, the Third Circuit affirmed the decision of the District Court dismissing the pro se debtor, William Kaetz's, complaint against a student loan servicer...
As had the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania (DC), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (Circuit) affirmed orders issued by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the...
Judge(s):
David J. Porter; Tamika Montgomery-Reeves; and Jane Richards Roth
District court's grant of summary judgment to the City of Phoenix affirmed. Debtor-plaintiff's claim against the City could have been brought at the time of her bankruptcy petition, and any...
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the decision of the bankruptcy court, because the debtor failed in her opening brief to address one of the two alternative holdings of the bankruptcy court. More...
Res judicata applies to a chapter 13 plan that is later properly modified so that creditors cannot appeal previously determined matters that were not altered by the modified plan. Thus, res...
In a split opinion (Chief Judge Pryor, dissenting) -- in which both the majority and the dissent focused on the meaning of the word "is" -- the Eleventh Circuit held that 11 U.S.C. § 1125(a)(3)...
Judge(s):
WILLIAM PRYOR, Chief Judge, and LUCK and ED CARNES, Cir-cuit Judges
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Sixth Circuit held a bankruptcy court erred in granting summary judgment to a debtor/appellee on a creditor/appellant's claim to except a debt from her...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held a bankruptcy court did not err in its application of the "two-dismissal rule" in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1)(B) to a third motion...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held a bankruptcy court did not err in granting a summary judgment finding a debtor owed his sister-in-law a non-dischargeable debt based on his...
Joining the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Tenth Circuits, whose decisions the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois (BC) had followed, the U.S. Court of Appeals for...
Judge(s):
Thomas Kirsch; Frank Easterbrook; and Diane S. Sykes
