Transfers sought to be avoided by the debtors as preferential totaled less than $600 in the aggregate, and were therefore subject to the § 547(c)(8) defense for consumer payments. Affirmed.
The Court of Appeals lacks jurisdiction over appeals from non-final orders of the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel. In particular, an order denying confirmation of a chapter 11 plan of reorganization is...
North Dakota law, which did not explicitly authorize the state to collect taxes for “account wagering,” did not impliedly authorize the collection of such taxes either. Accordingly, taxes...
Funds taken from an individual retirement account for the purpose of purchasing an annuity retain their exempt status under 11 U.S.C. § 522(b)(3)(C) as “retirement funds…in a fund or account...
An unwritten agreement for the payment of legal fees incurred by the counsel for a bank receiver is not an “agreement which tends to diminish or defeat the interest of the [FDIC] in any asset...
Standard form complaints and discovery requests served on debtors by a consumer debt collector did not, on their face, violate the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act, and therefore were...
Dismissal of a bankruptcy case does not divest the bankruptcy court Rather, a bankruptcy court retains ancillary jurisdiction to “tie up loose ends,” such as to rule on an application for...
In accordance with Tenth Circuit precedent, a chapter 11 debtor’s untimely application to employ counsel pursuant to § 327 may only be granted retroactively to the petition date upon a showing...
Vacating and remanding three district court orders and two bankruptcy court orders, the Fifth Circuit held that both courts lacked subject matter jurisdiction to enter various orders affecting both...
The Eighth Circuit affirmed the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel’s ruling that a chapter 7 debtor lacked standing to appeal an order approving the trustee’s compromise of a lawsuit belonging to the...
