In a case with the thinnest of connections to bankruptcy (the owners of the corporate defendant filed for bankruptcy relief; Sara Wenner then was dismissed from the federal ERISA litigation), the...
A discharge granted to Chapter 13 debtors does not enjoin the state from post-discharge collection of non-dischargeable domestic support obligation, even if a portion of such obligation was...
Judge(s):
WOLLMAN and LOKEN, Circuit Judges, and NELSON (D. Minn,, sitting by designation)
Affirming the bankruptcy court's decision that plaintiff had failed to carry her burden of proving that a judgment debt, awarded as damages for an accident that occurred while the debtor allegedly...
The evidentiary record did not support a finding that the bankruptcy court had committed reversible error by entering judgment in favor of the debtor in nondischargeability litigation. The BAP will...
Affirming the bankruptcy court's denial of the appellant's motion for relief from stay that would allow the appellant to prosecute a state mandamus action that the appellant had brought on behalf...
California personal property tax liens may be avoided in bankruptcy even if the tax collector records tax delinquency certificates ("Tax Certificates") with the appropriate County Recorder because...
Judge(s):
WARDLAW, CALLAHAN, GORDON J. QUIST (W.D. Mich., sitting by designation)
The appeal of the bankruptcy's denial of the debtors' motion to assume and assign automobile dealership agreements was moot because, among other reasons, the assignment would require the proposed...
1. Trial evidence that debtor (Corwin) cause companies that he controlled to use contracts containing language contrary to Texas tax lien foreclosure law was sufficient to establish that Corwin had...
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