Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (Circuit) affirmed the order of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Utah (BC), itself previously confirmed...
Judge(s):
Carlos F. Lucero; Jerome A. Holmes; and Allison H. Eid
The Court of Appeals affirmed the district court's order, which had affirmed the bankruptcy court decision to not award the Plaintiff enhanced statutory damages for timber trespass, because the COA...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (Sixth Circuit) affirmed the grant by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (BC), itself blessed by the U.S. District Court...
Judge(s):
R. Guy Cole Jr.; Bernice B. Donald; and Chad A. Readler
BAP for 9th Cir. affirmed ruling of bankruptcy court (D. Nev.) dismissing chapter 13 case and adversary proceeding and denying as moot numerous motions of pro se debtor, including motion for...
The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) affirmed the denial by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California (BC) of the dispositive motion (Motion),...
Judge(s):
Scott H. Gan; William J. Lafferty III; and Gary A. Spraker
US Bank, as trustee ("Secured Creditor") evidenced its right to enforce deed of trust. 11 U.S.C. Sec. 362(d)(4) inclusion of "scheme" means "an intentional artful plot or plan." Thus it is not...
Creditor's claim did not assert a pre-petition state law cause of action separate from the Bankruptcy Code. Rather, the claim arose from the initial bankruptcy filing. Therefore, the claim is...
Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) affirmed the disallowance, by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California (BC), of the Debtor's claim of a homestead...
Judge(s):
Gary A. Spraker; Scott H. Gan; and William J. Lafferty III
A panel of the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Sixth Circuit (BAP or Panel) affirmed, "solely" on procedural grounds, the decision of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District...
Judge(s):
Beth A. Buchanan; Randall S. Mashburn; and Jessica E. Price Smith
Walls v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., 276 F.3d 502 (9th Cir. 2002), does not preclude a Fair Debt Collection Practices Claim Act (15 U.S.C. § 1692 et seq.) claim by a debtor who receives a discharge...
Judge(s):
Kim McLane Wardlaw, Deborah L. Cook,* and Danielle J. Hunsaker, Circuit Judges (The Honorable Deborah L. Cook, United States Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, sitting by designation)
