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.
On an issue where the circuits are divided, the First Circuit upheld the two lower courts by ruling that a homestead exemption, valid on the chapter 13 filing date, is not lost if the debtor sells the.....
Believing that Supreme Court authority on preferences didn’t govern, the First Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel ruled that funds allegedly withdrawn from a retirement account before the filing date.....
In Taggart, the Supreme Court raised the bar on holding a creditor in contempt for violating the automatic stay. Some might say that the high court defanged the discharge. See Taggart v. Lorenzen, 139.....
Ordinarily, there is a clear winner and a clear loser when a circuit court decides an appeal. In a dischargeability case involving allegedly false representations and pretenses, the First Circuit.....
A relatively puny case from south Texas involving a false notice under Bankruptcy Rule 3002.1 is making important law on the rule and the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, or FDCPA, 15 U.S.C.....
A bankruptcy court order awarding damages for willful violation of the automatic stay is a final order that must be appealed immediately, even if the court hasn’t yet ruled on how much the debtor is.....
The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the First Circuit used a case involving the split of authority over Section 1322(c)(1) to opine on the binding effect of a BAP opinion on a later BAP panel in the.....
A 3/2 decision by the Rhode Island Supreme Court shows that an inherited individual retirement account, or IRA, can be exempt in bankruptcy under state law even though it would not be exempt under.....
The lower courts are divided on the issue, but the First Circuit is the first court of appeals to decide the question.
The debtor was a fraudster sentenced to 10 years in prison for perpetrating a.....
Expanding First Circuit authority, bankruptcy and district judges in Maine essentially followed the Fifth Circuit in holding that a chapter 7 debtor can sell exempt property after filing and.....