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...
OPINION NOT PRECEDENTIAL - Administrative expense claim struck because mediation communications in support of the administrative expense claim were not admissible. The parties had not waived the...
Judge(s):
CHAGARES, Chief Judge, PORTER and SCIRICA, Circuit Judges
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the District Court and Bankruptcy Court holdings that the chapter 11 debtors' motion to bring malpractice claims against their bankruptcy counsel was...
Defendants forfeited their right to challenge the authority of a bankruptcy judge who was transferred to sit in the Bankruptcy Division of the United States District Court for the Virgin Islands by...
In a non-precedential opinion, the Third Circuit held that, under Texas law, a landlord and tenant-assignee cannot amend a lease to increase the tenant-assignor’s liability under the lease unless...
In non-precedential opinion, the Third Circuit affirmed the bankruptcy court's decision to reject an individual pro se Debtor's proposed structured dismissal and instead dismiss the Debtor's...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed a district court's order dismissing Appellant's Fair Debt Collection Practices Act claim against a debt collector Appellee acting on behalf...
Because the Debtor's own actions and statements to his creditor obscured the applicability of the discharge order from his prior bankruptcy - which did not list or disclose the debtor's debt owed...
The Court clarifies standards a court must apply when deciding civil action abstention motions in deference to a pending foreign bankruptcy proceeding. First, the court must find the civil action...
