Joining the Tenth Circuit, the Ninth Circuit also has held that chapter 13 trustees are not paid their fees when cases are dismissed before confirmation. The identical issue was argued on February 15 before the Second Circuit.
In short order, we’ll have either unanimity or a split of circuits. A split will give rise to an issue worthy of a grant of certiorari by the Supreme Court.
Notably, the Ninth Circuit’s opinion on June 12 adopted reasoning in an amicus brief filed in support of the debtor by the National Consumer Bankruptcy Rights Center and National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys.
Reversing the lower courts, the Second Circuit held that a debtor is entitled to recover attorneys’ fees for successfully prosecuting appeals from the bankruptcy court’s order holding a creditor in.....
To bar discharge of a debt for violation of securities laws, Bankruptcy Judge Peter D. Russin of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., held that the debtor must have been a party in the lawsuit finding a violation.....
Being the “initial recipient” of a fraudulent transfer by itself isn’t enough to be liable as an “initial transferee,” for reasons explained by the Second Circuit in an opinion on May 5.
A foreign.....
Deepening a split of circuits, the First Circuit held over a lengthy dissent that the Bankruptcy Code waived sovereign immunity as to tribes of Native Americans.
The majority’s May 6 opinion by Circuit.....
The Supreme Court granted certiorari this week to resolve a split of circuits and decide whether a debtor is saddled with a nondischargeable debt for a false representation or actual fraud under.....
The lien on an impounded car in Chicago is a judicial lien that a debtor may avoid as an impairment of an exemption under Section 522(f), according to the Seventh Circuit.
In ruling on April 21 that.....
The Fourth Circuit has ruled emphatically that Taggart applies to all contempt citations in bankruptcy court.
However, the Richmond, Va.-based appeals court held that advice of counsel is not a.....
The target of a lawsuit financed by a litigation funding agreement has neither Article III standing nor prudential standing in the Eleventh Circuit to appeal the bankruptcy court’s order authorizing.....
If a court other than the bankruptcy court rules on a pending matter by handing down a decision after the bankruptcy filing, is the resulting order null and void as a violation of the automatic stay?
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Everyone knows that chapter 7 debtors seldom have standing to object to a trustee’s initiatives in bankruptcy court because they can’t show that the outcome will affect the debtor. But how strong a.....