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.
Brooklyn Bankruptcy Judge Elizabeth S. Stong nixed sophistic arguments that would have gutted Sections 109(g) and 362(b)(21) by allowing the automatic stay to halt foreclosure against a debtor whose.....
Last week, we reported on how Bankruptcy Judge M. Ruthie Hagan of Memphis, Tenn., interpreted the Supreme Court’s Till decision to mean that a fully secured holder of a second mortgage to be paid in.....
Sitting in the Sixth Circuit, Bankruptcy Judge M. Ruthie Hagan of Memphis, Tenn., decided that the Eighth Circuit had better authority interpreting Till and providing guidance for fixing the rate of.....
A chapter 7 debtor kept a chose in action that arose from the dead after filing, for reasons explained by Bankruptcy Judge Alan S. Trust of Central Islip, N.Y.
The debtor filed a chapter 7 petition in.....
With limited exceptions, traditional law says that chapter 7 debtors lack standing to object to proofs of claim. In a nonprecedential opinion, the Eleventh Circuit upheld dismissal of a debtor’s.....
If a chapter 13 debtor dies before confirmation, it stands to reason that the case should be dismissed because the debtor can’t file a plan, has no regular income and can’t be examined by creditors.
Th.....
In Tyler v. Hennepin County, 598 U.S. 631 (2023), the Supreme Court held that a real estate tax foreclosure can violate the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment when a municipality takes title but.....
Aligning itself with the Fifth Circuit plus dicta from the Second Circuit and the Supreme Court, the Eleventh Circuit held in a nonprecedential opinion that a bankruptcy court, and by extension a.....
A chapter 13 debtor who sustained a personal injury after filing was not required to pay the settlement proceeds to creditors, thanks to a decision by Bankruptcy Judge Henry A. Callaway of Mobile, Ala.....
Following Second Circuit precedent holding that denial of a debtor’s motion to dismiss a chapter 7 case is not a final, appealable order, a district judge on Long Island, N.Y., decided that an order.....