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.
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 requirement that courts read statutes literally has resulted in the erosion of the equitable powers of bankruptcy courts. Most notably, the Supreme Court held in Law v. Siegel, 571 U.S. 415 (2014).....
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.....
We follow arbitration cases in the Supreme Court because the justices have never granted certiorari to decide whether arbitration agreements are generally enforceable in bankruptcy. For example, must.....
Sanctions imposed on a creditor and its lawyers for violating the automatic stay and the discharge injunction may not be the end of the story. As demonstrated in a March 29 opinion by Bankruptcy Judge.....
The requirement of “finality” can sometimes mean that you can’t appeal a finding that you were in contempt of the automatic stay. That’s the teaching of a March 25, nonprecedential opinion from the.....