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.....
The exception in the automatic stay for “domestic violence” applies to claims for sexual abuse arising decades earlier, not only to claims of imminent or ongoing sexual abuse, says Bankruptcy Judge.....
Ruling on an issue that has “has divided and confounded bankruptcy courts for years,” Bankruptcy Judge Scott M. Grossman of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., decided that the “notice” referred to in Bankruptcy.....
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.....
While it’s beginning to look at lot like Christmas, it’s also beginning to look like the accrual test will decide whether a claim belongs to the debtor, not to the debtor’s bankrupt estate. At the.....
A district judge in Virginia held that a debtor’s appeal from an order confirming the debtor’s chapter 13 plan was equitably moot.
In his December 11 opinion, District Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff of.....
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.....
On the very same day, the Fifth Circuit and Bankruptcy Judge Keith L. Phillips of Richmond, Va., wrote opinions describing the limited circumstances under which a chapter 7 debtor may object to the.....
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.....