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.
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The Supreme Court granted certiorari to resolve a circuit split on the standard to employ before invoking judicial estoppel when a chapter 13 debtor failed to disclose a personal injury claim.
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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.....
If a debtor’s income falls below the median after filing and before confirmation, the chapter 13 debtor is entitled to lower the monthly payments and shorten the term of the plan to 36 months, for.....
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.....
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.....
At the end of the term, the Supreme Court decided a nonbankruptcy case that puts to rest several bankruptcy questions arising in the wake of Northern Pipeline, Granfinanciera and Stern v. Marshall.
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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.....
Aggressive bankruptcy planning led a bankruptcy court to deny a couple’s discharges under Section 727(a)(2)(B) for making a post-petition transfer with intent to hinder the chapter 7 trustee.
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