Debtor in a involuntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy lacked standing to argue that the Chapter 11 trustee for a business trust formerly owned by the debtor (the "Other Trustee") violated the automatic stay...
Judge(s):
BRAND, SPRAKER (Chief Bankruptcy Judge, D. Alaska, sitting by designation), KURTZ
In determining a monetary damages award in an arbitration between two non-debtors, a court can value a capital account held by a debtor in bankruptcy since a money judgment based on that valuation...
Sixth Circuit reversed District Court's addition of a related non-party to a judgment on account of alleged transfers to the non-party by a judgment debtor and determined that, under Michigan...
Creditor with medical malpractice claim against the debtor was allowed to file a late proof of claim, and was granted relief from stay to pursue a state court lawsuit. Evidence that Creditor had...
An appeal in a civil case from the District Court is timely under Fed. R. App. P. 4 if filed within 30 days of the order being appealed from and the failure to properly designate the order from...
Bankruptcy court erred by finding creditor in contempt for willfully violating debtor's discharge injunction without making any finding as to whether creditor knew the discharge injunction...
Sixth Circuit BAP affirmed Bankruptcy Court's order granting summary judgment for the creditor in a non-dischargeability case under Section 523(a)(6) determining that a jury verdict in U.S....
Judge(s):
Delk, Preston and Wise, Bankruptcy Appellate Judges
Once a final judgment was entered by default against a partnership, with its former general partners' knowledge, they were not entitled to have that judgment set aside after prevailing on a related...
Appeal of district court order dismissing individual plaintiff from case and allowing a bankruptcy trustee to substitute as plaintiff was dismissed for lack of appellate jurisdiction due to the...
