An unambiguous loan modification agreement, signed by the husband and wife that jointly own the real estate, may modify a mortgage signed by the husband as owner of the real estate and the wife...
The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit (1) upheld a bankruptcy court's determination that it had jurisdiction to approve a trustee's motion to sell real property in accordance with...
The BAP for the 6th Circuit affirmed the bankruptcy court (W.D. Tenn.) which granted in part and denied in part the Debtor’s motion for contempt. The BAP ruled that the bankruptcy court did not...
In a 2-1 opinion, the Court holds that the Texas Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act (TUFTA) allows a junior lienholder to avoid a pre-petition foreclosure sale as a fraudulent transfer where (1) the...
A consent order allowing a creditor to file an amended proof of claim and setting a deadline for the debtors to object to the amended claim is res judicata as to counterclaims later raised by the...
A series of errors by the trustee's attorney led the BAP to hold that the relation back doctrine found in Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(c) did not save the trustee's adversary proceeding. The original...
The Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel affirmed the bankruptcy court's order granting summary judgment in favor of the plaintiff creditor on his section 523(a)(6) claim against the defendant...
The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) affirmed the ruling of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California (BC) that found no bankruptcy court jurisdiction...
Judge(s):
William J. Lafferty III; Gary A. Spraker; and Laura S. Taylor
In this appeal by Swarnjit Singh Sahni (CR), a creditor, of the order confirming the first amended chapter 13 plan (Plan), as filed by Yoshihiro Tajima and Tomoko Nakajima (DRs), by the U.S....
Judge(s):
Laura S. Taylor; William J. Lafferty III; and Scott H. Gan
In an appeal by a chapter 11 debtor of a bankruptcy court’s judgment for it and against three persons and denial of motion to amend, the U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP)...
Judge(s):
Laura S. Taylor; William J. Lafferty III; and Julia W. Brand
