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
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
The Panel dismissed the appeal, of Jennifer Skurko (Skurko) and Leslie Gentile (Gentile, and with Skurko, Defendants), of an order of the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (BAP), which reversed the...
Judge(s):
Helene N. White; Alice M. Batchelder; and Eric E. Murphy
The bankruptcy court erred by disqualifying proposed counsel for a creditors' committee based on the court's conclusion that the law firm's prior representation of a 50% shareholder of the debtor...
Having previously treated Bankruptcy Rule 8002(a)(1)'s appellate deadline as jurisdictional, the Sixth Circuit here held it to be mandatory. The panel pointed to Supreme Court cases limning the...
Judge(s):
Jeffrey S. Sutton; Deborah L. Cook; and Helene N. White
Section 959(b) is not limited to compliance with health and safety laws and Debtor was required, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 959(b), to make statutorily mandated post-petition contributions to the...
Sixth Circuit affirmed the district court's holding that the bankruptcy court did not abuse its discretion when it decided to abstain from hearing an adversary proceeding brought by the Chapter 13...
