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 bankruptcy court has subject matter jurisdiction or power to entertain a nationwide class action alleging contempt of the discharge injunction, according to Bankruptcy Judge Elizabeth S. Stong of.....
When Fulton came down in January, the Supreme Court decided that debtors are not entitled to regain possession of impounded cars under Section 362(a)(3) simply by filing chapter 13 petitions. City of.....
The Fourth Circuit all but gave the federal government a free pass for violating the automatic stay by effecting a setoff without having first obtained a modification of the automatic stay.
The.....
Fighting like cats and dogs may be acceptable in a matrimonial case, but not when special counsel represents a debtor who is restructuring her debt in chapter 11.
Bankruptcy Judge Marvin Isgur of.....
Simply filing a motion to extend the deadline for objecting to discharge or dischargeability does not extend the deadline indefinitely, according to District Judge Fred Biery of San Antonio, who.....
The debtors were entitled to retain a $46,5000 personal injury settlement they received in the “gap” period before filing their chapter 13 petition, according to Bankruptcy Judge Thomas B. McNamara of.....
Even though measured by the expenses incurred by the state disciplinary authorities, a district judge in Wisconsin sided with the Ninth Circuit and held that costs assessed against the lawyer were not.....
The Eleventh Circuit ruled that the debtor’s discharge barred the holder of a nondischargeable debt from suing the debtor for fraudulently transferring estate property, even though the trustee had.....
On an issue where the circuits are split, a district judge sided with the majority by upholding Bankruptcy Judge Kent Lindquist of Hammond, Indiana, and ruling that the automatic stay does not.....
A district court decision upholding Chief Bankruptcy Judge Dale L. Somers has two important holdings regarding the dischargeability of student loans: (1) Disposable income insufficient even to pay.....