No. 18-1489

Curtland H. Caffey, et al. v. Brenda K. Bowers, Chapter 7 Trustee

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-05-29
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: automatic-stay bankruptcy-estate chapter-7 civil-procedure civil-rico good-faith good-faith-defense property-of-estate rico rico-action statutory-interpretation
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Latest Conference: 2019-10-01
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a state RICO action for injuries to a Chapter 7 debtor that arises five years after the filing of the Chapter 7 petition is property of the bankruptcy estate?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether a state RICO action for injuries to a Chapter 7 debtor that arises five years after the filing of the Chapter 7 petition is property of the bankruptcy estate? 2. Whether a reasonable good faith belief that a cause of action is not property of a bankruptcy estate is a defense for violation of the automatic stay 11 US.C. § 362(a).

Docket Entries

2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-07-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-07-09
Reply of petitioners Curtland H. Caffey, et al. filed.
2019-06-28
Brief of respondent Brenda Bowers, Chapter 7 Trustee in opposition filed.
2019-05-23
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 28, 2019)

Attorneys

Brenda Bowers, Chapter 7 Trustee
Daniel Edgar ShueyVorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, Respondent
Daniel Edgar ShueyVorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, Respondent
Curtland H. Caffey, et al.
Robert Clagett SandersLaw Office of Robert C. Sanders, Petitioner
Robert Clagett SandersLaw Office of Robert C. Sanders, Petitioner