The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit held a bankruptcy court did not abuse its discretion in dismissing the debtor/appellant's chapter 12 case with a three-year bar to refiling....
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held a district court did not abuse its discretion in denying a pro se appellant's motion for an extension of time to file a notice of appeal.
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) affirmed the findings of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court
for the Central District of California (BC) that Michael Eugene Reznick (RZ), an...
Judge(s):
Robert J. Faris; William J. Lafferty III; and Frederick P. Corbit
Business debt to bank is dischargeable under facts of this case, which failed to establish the required elements under 523(a), namely: (a) a reasonable investigation would have revealed prior...
Unscheduled legal claims remain property of the bankruptcy estate after discharge and cannot be considered abandoned, therefore a debtor lacks standing to pursue the claim through subsequent...
Following the Supreme Court's decision in Bartenwerfer v. Buckley, 589 U.S. 69 (2023), and Texas law establishing a person's liability for another's misrepresentations, an arbitrator's findings of...
In litigation that spanned many years, the 5th Circuit held that post-judgment interest, pursuant to 28 USC Sec. 1961(a),(c)(4) [applicable to bankruptcy courts as units of the district courts],...
A Ninth Circuit BAP affirmed a decision of the bankruptcy court. The court reasoned that the production company's state law contract claim was a core proceeding because it concerned the...
A bankruptcy court cannot reduce the amount of fees requested by a debtor's counsel without giving the lawyers notice and an opportunity for hearing if the rationale for the fee reduction is in the...
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit affirmed a bankruptcy court's order denying a debtor's motion to reopen his chapter 13 bankruptcy case because (1) a dismissed bankruptcy...
