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.
Under any of the three tests, allegations of domestic abuse are “personal injury tort claims” under Section 157(b)(5), according to the Eighth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel.
Of greater.....
Although the right of a trustee to sell an individual debtor’s defensive appellate rights was not before the court, the Eighth Circuit held that an appeal from an order approving the sale of offensive.....
Affirming the bankruptcy court, a district judge in Brooklyn identified a loophole allowing chapter 13 debtors in some states to assert a homestead exemption without having the exemption prevent the.....
With courts divided on the interpretation of 28 U.S.C. § 1412 about transferring venue in bankruptcy cases, a district judge in Rochester, N.Y., has adopted the approach from the Southern District of.....
As a more effective and targeted remedy for dismissal of a chapter 13 petition filed in bad faith, New York’s Bankruptcy Judge Philip Bentley dismissed, but with a proviso that the automatic stay in a.....
A district court in Minnesota ruled that a debtor is not required to arbitrate when the debtor sues the creditor for violating the automatic stay and discharge injunction. However, the January 13.....
The powers of a Subchapter V trustee cannot be expanded to authorize the trustee to pursue avoidance actions belonging to the trustee, according to an opinion by District Judge Cathy Seibel of White.....
Although his decision favored the debtor, an opinion by Bankruptcy Judge Brian C. Walsh of St. Louis shows how citizens with low incomes are poorly served by the Bankruptcy Code and meager state.....
The Eighth Circuit holds that judicial estoppel bars a chapter 13 debtor from recovering on an undisclosed personal injury claim that arose after filing but before the completion of plan payments. If.....
Three bankruptcy judges in St. Louis sat en banc and wrote an opinion that effectively bars bifurcated fee arrangements in the Eastern District of Missouri.
Recognizing “the difficulty that many.....