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 First Circuit wrote a 47-page dissertation on the invocation of judicial estoppel in bankruptcy cases. Basically, the principle requires more than a demonstration that the party had advanced legal.....
For a preference, the transfer occurs when property is placed in escrow or is delivered to the court to be held in custodia legis, according to Bankruptcy Judge William J. Fisher of St. Paul, Minn.
The.....
The First Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel insinuated that the Department of Education’s so-called borrower defense to the repayment of student loans cannot be raised under Section 523(a)(8) without.....
Nine days apart, bankruptcy judges in Colorado and Minnesota disallowed so-called bifurcated fee arrangements where chapter 7 debtors paid nothing before filing. The two judges found multiple.....
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.....
On an issue where the circuits are split, Bankruptcy Judge Kathleen H. Sanberg of Minneapolis sided with the majority and held that “only a debt traceable to a securities law violation committed by a.....
The First Circuit expanded the boundaries of constitutional mootness in a chapter 13 case, and perhaps also in chapter 11.
Even if the bankruptcy court had incorrectly directed the chapter 13 trustee.....
A decision by the district court in restructuring Puerto Rico’s debt demonstrates the gyrations a court must sometimes undertake to conclude that a contract is capable of assumption under the.....
If tribal law is written correctly, a tribe member’s share of gaming revenue is not estate property under Section 541(a), even if state law might give a different result, according to Chief Bankruptcy.....
Bankruptcy Judge Elizabeth D. Katz gave some relief to an individual not entitled to discharge student loans.
Under Section 105(a), Judge Katz of Springfield, Mass., discharged whatever would be left.....