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25A442 Palanikumar V. Gnanam, et al. v. Nathaniel Chibuzor Keita, et al. Florida 2025-10-20 Application automatic-stay bankruptcy certiorari jurisdiction state-court void-judgment Whether a bankruptcy filing and automatic stay can retroactively invalidate prior state court judgments and proceedings
25-327 Express Scripts, Inc., et al. v. California Ninth Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure automatic-stay coinbase-precedent federal-officer-removal remand-order statutory-exception Whether a remand order appealed under 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d) is subject to an automatic stay pending appeal
25A152 Justin Saadein-Morales v. Westridge Swim & Racquet Club, INC. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-06 Presumed Complete automatic-stay bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-stay federal-preemption property-jurisdiction state-court-orders Whether federal bankruptcy law preempts state court possession orders that conflict with the automatic stay and federal courts' exclusive jurisdiction…
24-1002 Steven C. Fustolo v. The Patriot Group, LLC Massachusetts 2025-03-20 Denied automatic-stay bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-stay judicial-enforcement legal-remedy state-court-injunction Does an automatic stay in bankruptcy prevent a state from enforcing a pre-stay state court injunction against a bankruptcy petitioner during the perio…
24-494 American Warrior, Incorporated, et al. v. Foundation Energy Fund IV-A, L.P., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-01 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay circuit-split statutory-injunction void-vs-voidable Should the Court resolve the circuit split over whether actions taken in violation of the bankruptcy automatic stay are void or merely voidable?
24-5764 Eva Carmack, aka Eva-Dijna Grant, aka Eva-Djina Grant-Carmack v. Gary Carmack Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP automatic-stay bankruptcy-estate claim-disclosure debtor-standing discharge-injunction due-process-rights Whether a debtor who fails to disclose a claim in bankruptcy schedules is barred from litigating that claim in state court and lacks standing to pursu…
24-369 Hassell Construction Company, Inc., et al. v. Harris County Improvement District No. 18, et al. Texas 2024-10-02 Denied Response Waived automatic-stay bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-stay equitable-tolling state-court-litigation statutory-interpretation Whether state courts may retroactively refuse to apply 11 U.S.C. §362(a)(3) as plainly worded, with attendant equitable tolling principles, after a ba…
24-201 Daniel S. Fitzgerald v. United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York Ninth Circuit 2024-08-22 Denied Response Waived automatic-stay civil-claims civil-procedure criminal-defendant statutory-interpretation trafficking-victims-protection-act Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1595(b)(1) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act requires an automatic stay of all civil claims pending a crim…
24-5020 Velina M. Johnson v. Inland Residential Real Estate Services, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP automatic-stay civil-procedure-60b-motion due-process fair-housing-act fraud-on-the-court housing-discrimination housing-retaliation judicial-bias rule-60-motion shotgun-pleading willful-violation-of-automatic-stay Whether a motion to vacate the court of appeals judgment is proper when the court of appeals defied its prior decision on the definition of a 'shotgun…
23-214 Juannelious Benjamin Murray, Sr. v. Safir Law P.L.C. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-07 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-362k1 attorney-fees automatic-stay bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-estate chapter-13 core-proceedings jurisdiction legal-services property-of-estate segal-v-rochelle Is it sound discretion for a bankruptcy court to disregard nearly sixty years of Supreme Court jurisprudence regarding what comprises property of a ba…
22-1010 Robert A. Heghmann, et ux. v. Djamel Hafiani, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied Response Waived automatic-stay bankruptcy-court-jurisdiction bankruptcy-jurisdiction circuit-split compensatory-damages district-court district-court-jurisdiction punitive-damages status-quo Does the Bankruptcy Court or the U.S. District Court, or both, have jurisdiction to entertain a complaint filed by a debtor seeking compensatory and p…
22-7293 Baboucar B. Taal v. John Cronin, Commissioner, et al. First Circuit 2023-04-14 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeal-as-a-right automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights de-novo-review due-process impartial-adjudication judicial-bias recusal Whether the First Circuit's refusal to undertake a de novo review with claims that pro se appellant did not develop his case for them to 'review' when…
22-810 Andrea Liebman v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review pro-tunc-order standing willful-violation Did the 11th US Court of Appeals err in affirming the Bankruptcy Court's use of an arbitrary Nunc Pro Tunc technique after a willful violation of the …
22-744 Joseph C. Sheehan v. Breccia Unlimited Company, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-jurisdiction circuit-split debtor-property in-rem-jurisdiction international-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction property-estate Whether the United States Bankruptcy Code's grant of world-wide jurisdiction over a debtor's property permits a federal court to exercise in rem juris…
22-2 Susan M. Boltz-Rubinstein v. Bank of America, N.A. Third Circuit 2022-06-30 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-362 agency-relationship automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay contractual-control damages damages-limitation lift-stay mortgage-servicer Whether a purported agency relationship between a lift stay beneficiary and a mortgage servicer is a defense to an uncontested stay violation under th…
21-1049 Alice Guan v. Ellingsworth Residential Community Association, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied appellate-review automatic-stay bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights due-process final-order judicial-order laws-of-the-united-states rule-3007 Whether bankruptcy court violated Petitioner's rights
21-1000 Clifford Allen Brace, Jr. v. Steven M. Speier, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied 11-usc-541 automatic-stay bankruptcy-jurisdiction bodily-detention contempt contempt-order due-process jurisdiction probate-exception Whether the Bankruptcy court's order violates the 5th, 8th and 14th amendments of the United States Constitution
21-5121 Ben Young v. Crescent Management, LLC, et al. Oklahoma 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11-usc-362 attorney-misconduct automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay creditor debt-collection mortgage-concealment mortgage-payment proof-of-claim Whether attorneys who filed and signed Proof of Claim on behalf of creditor violate automatic stay 11 U.S.C. §362(a)(D)(2)(82) (QO) by concealing mort…
20-1812 Donald C. Kupperstein v. Irene Schall, Personal Representative of the Probate Estate of Fred Kuhn, et al. First Circuit 2021-06-28 Denied Response Waived automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay civil-jurisdiction civil-money-judgment civil-procedure governmental-collection jurisdiction police-power-exception Whether a state court has jurisdiction or authority to determine whether a civil action before it is subject to the automatic stay of 11 USC §362
20-1348 True Harmony, et al. v. United States District Court for the Central District of California Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response Waived automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay civil-rights disqualification due-process federal-constitution federal-judge judicial-bias judicial-disqualification Whether a federal court judge should be disqualified for lack of impartiality due to prior violations of the automatic stay in bankruptcy and denial o…
20-6432 Elise LaMartina v. David Adler, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied IFP automatic-stay bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-jurisdiction barton-doctrine creditor-claims immunity judicial-immunity jurisdiction state-court trustee ultra-vires-acts May a bankruptcy court exponentially expand the Barton Doctrine?
19-8826 Andrea Genrette v. Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company Third Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay lower-court manifest-error petition-for-rehearing third-circuit Was the Third Circuit's denial of the Petition for Rehearing an error?
19-1349 George L. Miller, Chapter 7 Trustee for the Estate of HomeBanc Corp. v. Bear Stearns & Co., Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied Response Waived automatic-stay bankruptcy-code collateral collateral-liquidation creditor-protection financial-crisis repurchase-agreements safe-harbor statutory-interpretation Whether the Bankruptcy Code's safe harbor language of limitation should be enforced as written or the statute interpreted as though the language of li…
19-1063 Joy Denby-Peterson v. NU2U Auto World, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) 11-usc-362 11-usc-362(a) 11-usc-362a automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-stay creditor creditor-rights debtor debtor-trustee property-possession property-rights turnover Whether a creditor who maintains possession of property in which a bankruptcy estate has an interest violates the Bankruptcy Code's automatic stay pro…
19-1035 ShaRon D. Rose v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 11-usc-362 automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-362-a bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-filing bankruptcy-petition bankruptcy-petition-dismissal bankruptcy-statute-2005-revisions bankruptcy-stay debtor-property repeat-bankruptcy-filings statutory-interpretation Whether 11 U.S.C. § 362(c)(8)(A) terminates the automatic bankruptcy stay as to property of the bankruptcy estate
19-7655 Joseph Llewellyn Worrell v. Emigrant Mortgage Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied IFP 11-usc-349 automatic-stay bankruptcy-dismissal bankruptcy-dismissal-statute-11-usc-349-b-3 bankruptcy-estate-revesting chapter-13-petition due-process mortgage-lien postpetition-sale prepetition-status-quo-ante servicemembers-civil-relief-act servicemembers-civil-relief-act-scra-2003 status-quo-ante Whether the 'prepetition status quo ante' requirement of the bankruptcy dismissal statute extinguishes unapproved postpetition sales
19-7579 Philip G. Barry v. Thomas Perkins, et ux. Second Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied IFP automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-courts bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-law federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment state-court-judgments void-ab-initio Whether the so-called 'Rooker-Feldman Doctrine' strips bankruptcy and other lower federal courts of jurisdiction to avoid or otherwise declare a state…
19-945 Fred S. Pardes v. Susan Doan California 2020-01-28 Denied asset-concealment automatic-stay bankruptcy-fraud debtor-disclosure estoppel intentionally-omitted-assets post-discharge-injunction unclean-hands Whether a dishonest bankruptcy debtor has unclean hands or is estopped from seeking relief
19-391 Assured Guaranty Corp., et al. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bond-debt debt-enforcement municipal-bankruptcy municipal-bond-market special-revenues Whether 11 U.S.C. § 922(d) mandates that there is no automatic stay of debt enforcement actions with respect to pledged special revenues
19-387 Ambac Assurance Corporation v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 11-usc-904 11-usc-922 48-usc-2165 automatic-stay bankruptcy-code debt-enforcement municipal-bankruptcy municipal-debtors special-revenues statutory-interpretation Whether 11 U.S.C. § 904 and 48 U.S.C. § 2165 prohibit a bankruptcy court from enforcing the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code against municipal debtor…
19-357 City of Chicago, Illinois v. Robbin L. Fulton, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-09-18 Judgment Issued Amici (11) 11-usc-362 affirmative-obligation automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure debtor-trustee property-retention property-rights Whether an entity that is passively retaining possession of property in which a bankruptcy estate has an interest has an affirmative obligation under …
19-5135 Joseph Ballard v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections Louisiana 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts automatic-stay centralized-inmate-banking dismissal due-process equal-protection meaningful-access-to-courts prison-litigation-reform-act statutory-automatic-stay Is Louisiana obligated to implement and maintain a Centralized Inmate Banking System?
18-1489 Curtland H. Caffey, et al. v. Brenda K. Bowers, Chapter 7 Trustee Sixth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied automatic-stay bankruptcy-estate chapter-7 civil-procedure civil-rico good-faith good-faith-defense property-of-estate rico rico-action statutory-interpretation 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 ba…
18-1339 Mark Anthony Fornesa, et al. v. Fifth Third Mortgage Company Fifth Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response Waived ' 'appeals' ' 'bankruptcy-law" ' 'civil-rights" ' 'constitutional-law" ' 'foreclosure" ' 'fraud" automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay constitutional-rights constitutional-validity constitutional-violation damages debtor-rights eviction foreclosure foreclosure-fraud fraud-allegation mortgage-dispute mortgage-law property-seizure Unlawful seizure of debtor's property during bankruptcy without relief from stay, fraud against the United States, violation of 4th and 7th Amendment …
18-8401 Justin D. Burgess v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, dba Christiana Trust, as Trustee for Premium Mortgage Acquisition Trust Texas 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP automatic-stay civil-procedure court-rules due-process equal-protection judgment judgment 18-83" lawsuit Question not identified. rules standing Is it an error and an impermissible denial of due process of law and equal protection of law for a court to ignore its own rules which would impose an…
18-7708 Philip Eberhard Koebel v. Stevan Chandler, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied IFP 11-usc-109e attorney-discipline automatic-stay bad-faith bankruptcy-code chapter-13 debtor-attorney-discipline debtor-eligibility dismissal homestead-exemption Whether a bankruptcy court contravenes the Bankruptcy Code
18-7546 Sherman Vickers v. Marina del Rey Marina, LLC California 2019-01-24 Denied IFP appellate-dismissal appellate-procedure automatic-stay civil-procedure clerk-error court-dismissal designation-of-records due-process fair-hearing record-perfection right-to-fair-hearing right-to-fair-trial Whether there is an automatic stay for the Court of Appeals
18-941 Carl B. Davis, Chapter 13 Trustee v. Tyson Prepared Foods, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-estate circuit-split courts-of-appeals creditor creditor-rights passive-conduct property-interest property-interests property-of-the-estate statutory-interpretation Should the Court grant certiorari to resolve an entrenched and acknowledged conflict among the courts of appeals over whether section 362(a) applies t…
18-938 Ritzen Group, Inc. v. Jackson Masonry, LLC Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (3) 28-usc-158 appellate-jurisdiction automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay circuit-split civil-procedure final-order precedent statutory-interpretation Whether an order denying a motion for relief from the automatic stay is a final order under 28 U.S.C. § 158(a)(1)
18-562 Elizabeth Haring Coomes v. Maryland Insurance Administration Maryland 2018-10-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-law automatic-stay bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-law-362-b-4 bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure double-jeopardy due-process insurance-licensing police-power regulatory-action regulatory-power Whether 11 U.S.C. 362(b)(4) applies to a Debtor's appeal of a final regulatory action