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.
Bankruptcy Judge David M. Warren of Raleigh, N.C., socked a remorseless creditor with $41,000 in actual and punitive damages for having a debtor jailed on trumped-up embezzlement charges designed to.....
What a relief! The Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel held that this year’s Acevedo decision from the Supreme Court does not bar bankruptcy courts from annulling the automatic stay. Except in.....
If it’s a fraudulent transfer when insolvent parents pay tuition for their adult children, shouldn’t the insolvent parents be entitled to avoid loans they took out for their children as fraudulent.....
By anticipating amendments to Bankruptcy Rule 3007, the bankruptcy and district courts committed error by ruling that an objection to a claim by the Internal Revenue Service must have been served on.....
The Seventh Circuit, per Circuit Judge Frank Easterbrook, has issued the third in a series of opinions emphatically requiring bankruptcy courts to make case-specific findings of fact when a chapter 13.....
On an issue where the lower courts are split, the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel took sides with the majority by holding that an asset is not automatically abandoned if it was disclosed only.....
The Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari presenting a circuit split on Section 362(c)(3)(A) and the following question:
If a petition by an individual under chapters 7, 11 or 13 has been.....
The Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel habitually writes lengthy opinions with copious analysis of the facts and the law, just in case the appeal goes to the Ninth Circuit and is not well argued.....
While attempting to salvage a failing business, a company’s owner didn’t commit a nondischargeable “defalcation” by failing to make employer’s contributions to a union welfare fund, according to.....
The Internal Revenue Service cannot be held liable for violating the discharge injunction unless the debtor has exhausted administrative remedies, according to Chief Bankruptcy Judge Cecelia Morris of.....