BAP for 9th Cir. affirmed bankruptcy court (ND Cal.) order converted debtors' chapter 13 case to chapter 7. Debtors' attempts to misrepresent interest in non-residential property, including...
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) affirmed the dismissal of an involuntary case filed by a creditor by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California...
Where a decision whether to allow or disallow a claim could have preclusive effect in future litigation, an appeal of that decision is not moot despite the administrative bankruptcy case having...
Judge(s):
Honorable Lafferty, Faris, and Taylor, Bankruptcy Judges
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (Circuit) affirmed the dismissal of an adversary complaint by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Missouri (BC), that had sought...
Judge(s):
Raymond W. Gruender; William D. Benton; and Bobby E. Shepherd
Creditor's Counsel's law firm and Counsel personally liable for violation of discharge injunction by continuing garnishment proceedings on discharged debt and failing to return improperly garnished...
Judge(s):
Croom, Wise and Dales (concurringin part and dissenting in part)
In a non-bankruptcy opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (Circuit) affirmed the dismissal of a complaint for violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) for...
Judge(s):
Kenneth F. Ripple; Michael S. Kanne; and Ilana K. D. Rovner
The BAP reversed the bankruptcy court's decision which denied the creditors' request to garnish funds held by the Chapter 13 Trustee post-dismissal, and the BAP remanded the matter to allow the...
The Tenth Circuit’s Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (BAP) held that the 1881 Barton doctrine, designed, at least in the Tenth Circuit, to ensure other courts do not intervene in an estate’s...
Judge(s):
Michael E. Romero; Dale L. Somers; and Cathleen D. Parker
The Eleventh Circuit held that a jury should decide whether Losch's claims that Experian negligently, but not willfully, violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act by failing to take reasonable...
A bankruptcy court's authority to enforce its own orders gives the court power to dismiss a bankruptcy petition, and to deny the debtor a discharge, if the debtor willfully fails to comply with the...
