The United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Eighth Circuit affirmed a bankruptcy court's judgment that a debtor could discharge a $96k private student loan debt owed to the Bank/Appellant....
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld a bankruptcy court's order denying a creditor's motion to extend the deadline to file a non-dischargeability complaint. Its "prior panel...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit concluded the Appellants "waived their appeal" by failing to address the bankruptcy court's two reasons for denying their motion to compel...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit overturned a district court and reinstated a bankruptcy court's ruling that a liquidating trustee under a chapter 11 plan of liquidation could not...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held a bankruptcy court did not err in disallowing the chapter 7 debtors' claimed exemption in a prepetition, contingent, unliquidated personal...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld a bankruptcy court's summary judgment determination that, under Massachusetts law, an affidavit of sale filed prepetition provided...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld a bankruptcy court's summary judgment ruling against a debtor, denying him a discharge pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §727(a)(3). The bankruptcy...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld a district court's sua sponte dismissal, with prejudice, of a pro se plaintiff/debtor's in forma pauperis complaint against a bankruptcy...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a bankruptcy court's order confirming a chapter 13 plan over a creditor's objections. Most notably, the court held, as a matter of first...
Judge(s):
Mary M. Schroeder, William A. Fletcher, and Consuelo M. Callahan
In a 2-1 decision, the Fifth Circuit held a bankruptcy court erred in refusing to consider a debtor's unclean hands defense to a claim to except a state court judgment debt from discharge under 11...
