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.
A debtor who is not a U.S. citizen is not entitled to a Florida homestead exemption unless the debtor holds a so-called green card entitling the debtor to permanent residence in the U.S.
The debtor was.....
Bankruptcy Judge Roberta A. Colton of Tampa, Fla., socked a law firm with $10,500 in sanctions for violating the discharge injunction.
The lesson to be learned: When confronted with a discharge.....
An unmarried couple broke up. The man moved out. The woman refused to return his personal property.
Often in these circumstances, the offended party will build a bonfire in the front yard, burning up.....
The obligation of a police officer to repay salary after being convicted of a crime is a nondischargeable debt, according to Bankruptcy Judge Kathryn C. Ferguson and District Judge Michael A. Shipp of.....
The Third Circuit granted panel rehearing and vacated an opinion issued on June 11. Although nonprecedential, the June opinion could have been understood to mean that a debtor must show malice or.....
Given the “exceptional facts” of the case, the Third Circuit upheld the constitutional power of a bankruptcy court to grant nonconsensual, third-party releases.
Indeed, the circumstances were.....
Taking sides with the minority in a circuit split, the Third Circuit held that the automatic stay in Section 362(a) does not require a secured creditor to turn over repossessed property immediately or.....
Upholding Bankruptcy Judge Gregory T. Taddonio, a district judge in Pittsburgh held that stripping off a state’s tax lien is an in rem proceeding in which the state has no Eleventh Amendment sovereign.....
Joining several other circuits, the Third Circuit ruled that an action under Section 362(k) to recover damages for a willful violation of the automatic stay may exist independent of the underlying.....
Proceedings for contempt of the discharge injunction were not within the scope of an arbitration agreement, according to bankruptcy and district judges in Tampa, Florida.
A chapter 7 debtor scheduled.....