Two judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (Circuit) affirmed the dismissal by the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota (DC) of a complaint filed by Anders Rydholm...
Judge(s):
Ralph R. Erickson; Michael J.. Melloy; and Jonathan A. Kobes
8th Circuit affirmed ruling of District Court (D. Minn.) granting defendant's motion for summary based on lack of genuine issue of material fact that plaintiff was not damaged by plaintiff.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (Circuit) reversed the grant of summary judgment by the bankruptcy court (BC), later affirmed by a bankruptcy appellate panel, in favor of Jay and...
Judge(s):
Lavenski R. Smith; Raymond W. Gruender; and Jonathan A. Kobes
In another appeal arising out of the Ponzi schemes of Thomas Peters (TP), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit partly diverged from the U.S. District Court for the District of...
Judge(s):
Bobby E. Shepherd; Steven M. Colloton; and Jane L. Kelly
A defendant in a trial for conspiracy to breach fiduciary duty must specify the law and facts that would entitle the defendant to a judgment as a matter of law. The defendant and may not wait...
The BAP affirmed the bankruptcy court's ruling sustaining the trustee's objections to: (1) the state's claim that a nonprofit, not the debtor, should recover the remaining tax settlement funds, and...
More than two decades after the shareholders of NationsBank and BankAmerica first filed securities law class actions after these two merged to form Bank of America Corp. (1999) and nearly two...
Judge(s):
James B. Loken; Jane L. Kelly; and Ralph P. Erickson
Albeit agreeing with the district court that it (as well as itself) had statutory subject matter jurisdiction, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (Panel) concluded that the district...
Judge(s):
James B. Loken; Steven L. Grasz; and Jonathan A. Kobes
Finding no error in the ruling, made by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Minnesota (BC), on the amount of damages owed to Madison Resource Funding Corp. (Madison) by Jerry Marsh...
Judge(s):
Charles L. Nail, Jr.; Barry S. Schermer; and Thomas L. Saladino
In this latest chapter of a long-running dispute over farmland (Property) once owned by John and Lorie Finstad (Finstads)—and their second federal appeal involving that parcel’s ownership—the...
Judge(s):
James B. Loken; William D. Benton; and Jane L. Kelly