NOTE TO READER: READ “FACTS” FIRST
- Holding: Affirming the district court.
- The Trustee had argued that its breach-of-contract claim against Haymount, although unrecorded, was superior...
1. The district court did not err in concluding that the appeals of bankruptcy court orders were untimely. Orders re-converting case into chapter 13 proceeding were final when chapter 13 case was...
In re Charter Communications, Inc., --- F.3d ----, 2012 WL 3764706 (2d Cir. Aug. 31, 2012)
Ruling:
• The Circuit Court AFFIRMED the district court on an abuse of discretion review and HELD that the appeals were equitably moot.
• The Circuit stated that equitable mootness in the present case...
The 8th Circuit BAP AFFIRMED the Bankruptcy Court. The Panel held that the bankruptcy court did not abuse its discretion by extending the time for service of process of a complaint seeking...
Judge(s):
Kressel, Chief Judge; Saladino and Nail, Bankruptcy Judges
Wachovia Bank v. VCG Special Opportunities Master Fund, Ltd., --- F.3d ----, 2011 WL 5110122 (2d Cir. Oct. 28, 2011)
Ruling:
A hedge fund that entered into a credit default swap agreement with a bank affiliated with a capital markets servicer was not a customer of the servicer within the meaning of FINRA rules, such that...
