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.
Although holding a hearing on a contempt motion in state court may not violate the automatic stay, the remedy imposed by the state court may nonetheless violate the stay, according to Bankruptcy Judge.....
On a question where the lower courts are split, Bankruptcy Judge A. Benjamin Goldgar of Chicago took sides with the minority by holding that violating a PACA trust does not give rise to denial of.....
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.....
In one of his last rulings before ascending to the district court bench, then-Chief Bankruptcy Judge Frank W. Volk of Charleston, W.Va., navigated between several decisional splits and three statutes.....
Yesterday, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in City of Chicago v. Fulton, 19-357 (Sup. Ct.), to resolve a circuit split and decide whether inaction can violate the automatic stay under Section 362.....
At least in Illinois, unused vacation pay is exempt as wages, no matter how much, according to Seventh Circuit Judge Frank H. Easterbrook.
The debtor lost his job and filed bankruptcy one week later.....
A 3/2 decision by the Rhode Island Supreme Court shows that an inherited individual retirement account, or IRA, can be exempt in bankruptcy under state law even though it would not be exempt under.....
Creating a split of circuits, the Fifth Circuit held that Section 362(c)(3)(A) only terminates the automatic stay as to the debtor and property of the debtor, but not as to property of the estate.
Sec.....
While closing one door, the Supreme Court opened another door today for debtors to argue that the statute of limitations does not begin to run until discovery of the existence of a claim under the.....
On two issues where the intermediate state appellate courts in New York are divided, Bankruptcy Judge Robert E. Grossman of Central Islip, N.Y., ruled that the statute of limitations barred the holder.....