| 25-6209 |
Rick Negrette v. Phu V. Pham, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11-usc-110 bankruptcy-court fine-imposition judicial-discretion pro-se-litigant public-assistance |
The following issues are to be respectfully presented before this right honorable court:
In addition to those listed below, two main issues arise bef… |
| 25-119 |
Highland Capital Management, L.P. v. NexPoint Advisors, L.P., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-31 |
Pending |
CVSGAmici (2) |
bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-process lawsuit-screening legal-gatekeeping liability-exculpation nondebtor-participants |
1. Whether a bankruptcy court can act as a gatekeeper to screen noncolorable lawsuits against nondebtor bankruptcy participants.
2. Whether a bankrup… |
| 24A917 |
Iván Vechioli Cruz, et al. v. Kiyomi M. Santos Onoda |
First Circuit |
2025-03-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review bankruptcy-court discretionary-ruling reconsideration standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether a bankruptcy court's summary judgment ruling and denial of reconsideration can be overturned when the appellants fail to demonstrate legal err… |
| 24-6640 |
Jorge L. Quintana, Sr. v. Tanya Holzhaus, Individually and as Escrow Agent of Stewart Title Company, et al. |
Texas |
2025-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
bankruptcy-court exemption-limits homestead-exemption property-rights state-law trustee-jurisdiction |
Whether individual states can set the parameters of a homestead exemption for citizens filing bankruptcy or if bankruptcy petitions remove states' abi… |
| 24-878 |
Rachel Breaux v. Louisiana Stadium and Exposition District, et al. |
Louisiana |
2025-02-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review bankruptcy-court equitable-factors fair-notice judicial-estoppel |
Whether application of judicial estoppel violates fundamental principles of fair notice when a petitioner's duty to report a claim to bankruptcy court… |
| 24-6268 |
Ramon Moreno-Cuevas v. Town Sports International, LLC, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
article-iii bankruptcy-court due-process jury-trial non-core-proceeding seventh-amendment |
Whether a litigant in a non-core bankruptcy case loses Seventh Amendment rights to a jury trial by not objecting to a bankruptcy Plan, and whether suc… |
| 24-454 |
Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three, et al. |
California |
2024-10-22 |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy-court civil-procedure due-process emotional-distress judicial-conflict self-representation |
Whether a self-represented litigant's due process rights were violated in a civil case involving emotional distress claims, bankruptcy court proceedin… |
| 24-5759 |
Andrew John Delaney v. Gregory Messer, Chapter 7 Trustee |
Second Circuit |
2024-10-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction bankruptcy-court chapter-7 circuit-split final-order voluntary-dismissal |
Whether a bankruptcy court's denial of a debtor's motion to voluntarily dismiss a Chapter 7 case is a final appealable order under 28 U.S.C. § 158 |
| 24-5733 |
Brent Evan Webster v. United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Oregon |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review bankruptcy-court judicial-misconduct procedural-due-process property-dispute title-fraud |
Was it fair and just, or a misinterpretation of the law that Circuit Judges dismissed an appeal for failure to prosecute without further notice despit… |
| 24-238 |
Charles K. Breland, Jr. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy-court consent-order iRS-claims res-judicata tax-assessment tax-liability |
Whether a bankruptcy court's consent order limiting the IRS's tax collection rights is binding and preclusive in subsequent tax court proceedings |
| 24-98 |
Norman Abood, et al. v. James P. Carroll, Chapter 7 Trustee |
Third Circuit |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
|
article-iii-courts article-three bankruptcy bankruptcy-court congress-power constitutional-authority judicial-council jurisdictional-challenge statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
Whether the Virgin Islands Bankruptcy Court is lawfully constituted under Article III, § 1 of the United States Constitution |
| 24-34 |
Ricky-Dean Horton v. PG&E Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
9th-circuit bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure court-rules due-process judicial-discretion procedural-fairness statutory-interpretation substantive-rights |
Whether the proceedings in the U. S. Bankruptcy Court N.D. Cal. failed to follow the rules and procedures for a fair and just determination of Petitio… |
| 23-785 |
PHH Mortgage Corporation v. Mark Anthony Guthrie |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-22 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court civil-contempt debt-collection discharge-injunction federal-preemption preemption state-law-claims uniform-federal-law |
Whether the Bankruptcy Code preempts state-law claims premised on alleged efforts to collect a debt in violation of the bankruptcy court's discharge i… |
| 23-360 |
Richard Sharif, et al. v. Horace Fox, Jr., as Trustee |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-04 |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy-court due-process foreign-court jurisdiction probate rooker-feldman-doctrine |
Whether a bankruptcy court has the jurisdiction to overrule an Aleppo Syria foreign probate court order or whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine applies… |
| 23-281 |
Steven C. Fustolo v. The Patriot Group, LLC, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-09-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review bankruptcy-court bias-in-fact circuit-split civil-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-recusal recusal standard-of-review |
Should the national standard of review for a denial of a motion to recuse be abuse of discretion or de novo? |
| 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… |
| 22-7199 |
William Paul Burch v. Nationstar Mortgage Holdings, Inc. |
Texas |
2023-04-04 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-court community-property federal-court-jurisdiction lien lien-extinguishment standing standing-issue summary-judgment texas-constitution |
Whether the lack of a signature resulting in a legally voided lien also means that the petitioner does not have standing in a community property state |
| 22-6954 |
Juanita Burch v. Rushmore Loan Management Services, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-removal civil-procedure court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction lien-extinguishment loan-management procedural-error removal summary-judgment |
Whether the 2008 bankruptcy extinguished the lien on the property and the lender's refusal to follow the court's instructions to reinstate the loan me… |
| 22-631 |
Highland Capital Management, L.P. v. NexPoint Advisors, L.P., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
CVSGResponse RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court chapter-11 circuit-split debt-discharge discharge reorganization-plan statutory-interpretation third-party-liability third-party-releases |
Whether Section 524(e) of the Bankruptcy Code constrains the power of a court when confirming a plan of reorganization |
| 22-6375 |
Homayoun Maali v. William K. Harrington, United States Trustee |
First Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-court civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process nationality pro-se pro-se-litigant religion |
Whether the circuit court of appeal erred in allowing the respondent to violate the petitioner's constitutional rights due to discrimination based on … |
| 22-5860 |
Brent Evan Webster v. United States District Court for the District of Oregon |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-152-4 bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-fraud constitutional-rights creditor-claims due-process false-claims foreclosure perfected-claims secured-and-unsecured-creditors |
Is it true that the courts erred by allowing the USBK Court Division Portland, Oregon and their attorneys to violate webster's due-process-rights allo… |
| 22-5852 |
Brent Evan Webster v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
adversary-proceeding adversary-proceedings bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure claim-discharge discharge homestead-protection judicial-error priority-claims res-judicata trustee trustee-administration |
Did the Portland US Bankruptcy Court err in dismissing the adversary filings of Webster, failing to sustain his prior discharge after previously perfo… |
| 22-5482 |
William Paul Burch v. Homeward Residential Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bankruptcy-court due-process in-forma-pauperis non-article-iii-judge removal-court removal-jurisdiction removal-time-limit rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-appeals thirty-day-window vexatious-litigant |
Question not identified |
| 21-1321 |
Yan Sui v. Richard A. Marshack, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-court civil-procedure civil-rights discharge-injunction due-process ninth-circuit property-rights standing summary-affirmance takings |
whether-lower-courts-were-lawless |
| 21-1277 |
David Allen O'Neal v. Crawford County, Georgia |
Georgia |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-court civil-procedure county-employee county-liability personal-jurisdiction third-party-release third-party-releases void-judgment |
Whether a judgment against a county employee in his official capacity is unenforceable without personal jurisdiction over the attorney |
| 21-1177 |
Philip Jay Fetner v. Kevin R. McCarthy |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-court bias constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias recusal |
Was Debtor's fundamental right to due process violated by the Bankruptcy Court's bias and failure to recuse itself? |
| 21-1119 |
Paul Francis v. John O. Desmond, United States Trustee |
First Circuit |
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-521 11-usc-727 appellate-review bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure court-of-appeals discharge-denial due-process judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation sua-sponte |
Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals committed error when affirming judgment from the Bankruptcy Court Appellate Panel refusing to reverse the B… |
| 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 |
| 21-1047 |
Annick Roy, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Jean-Guy Veilleux, Deceased, et al. v. Canadian Pacific Railway Company |
First Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
appeal appeal-tolling bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure district-court federal-rules judicial-review title-11 |
Whether the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure govern procedure in district court cases that are merely 'related to a case under title 11 |
| 21-803 |
Wendy Dale v. Algernon Lee Butler, III |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bad-faith bankruptcy-conversion bankruptcy-court chapter-13 means-test pending-lawsuit pro-se-debtor social-security social-security-disability |
May a bankruptcy court deny a Motion to Convert to Chapter 13 Bankruptcy on the basis of bad faith and inability to qualify as a Chapter 13 debtor |
| 21-713 |
Victor P. Kearney v. Unsecured Creditors Committee, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-trustee district-court-jurisdiction due-process fiduciary-duty jurisdiction trust-law trustee-appointment |
When does a lower district court have the sole discretion to influence, lead, dictate, supersede, deny, or nullify the jurisdiction of the higher fede… |
| 21-701 |
Oakley Grain, Inc., et al. v. M. Randy Rice, Chapter 7 Trustee, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-court circuit-split civil-procedure district-court injunction interpleader standing state-court-lawsuit |
Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's Order affirming the Bankruptcy Court's ruling that the State Court lawsuit did not … |
| 21-599 |
Margaret L. Kinney v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-court chapter-13 completion-discharge debtor-rights discharge modification motion-to-dismiss payment plan plan-modification |
Should a bankruptcy court deny a motion to dismiss and/or grant a completion discharge when there remains a shortfall that the debtor is willing and a… |
| 21-6019 |
James Paul Arlotta v. His Holiness Pope Francis, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appearances-of-impropriety bankruptcy-court civil-rights conflicts-of-interest constitutional-questions court-jurisdiction due-process establishment-clause judicial-proceedings legal-review recusal |
Whether the court will adhere to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment in light of the apparent conflicts of interest and impropriety involv… |
| 21-278 |
John Krakowski, et al. v. Allied Pilots Association, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-1113 bankruptcy-court collective-bargaining discrimination duty-of-fair-representation labor-union railway-labor-act seniority-system |
Where a labor union imposed as part of its collective bargaining agreement a seniority system that admittedly discriminated in bad faith against a dis… |
| 21-5344 |
Edith Woodberry v. City of Detroit, Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-court constitutional-obligation due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment just-compensation public-policy takings |
Whether the bankruptcy court can discharge the City of Detroit's constitutional obligation to pay just compensation after taking private property via … |
| 20-1518 |
QDOS, Inc. v. Matthew Hayden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-29 |
Denied |
|
appealable-order appellate-panel bankruptcy bankruptcy-appellate-panel bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-proceeding final-order interlocutory-order involuntary-petition judicial-review |
Whether a Bankruptcy Appellate Panel's order reversing a bankruptcy court's dismissal of an involuntary petition constitutes a final, appealable order |
| 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? |
| 20-671 |
In Re Atul C. Shah |
|
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
bankruptcy-court civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-investigation employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech judicial-procedure religion standing |
Whether the violation of First Amendment for practice of my Religion occurred |
| 20-5602 |
Robyn Jill Farrington v. U.S. Bank Trust N.A., as Trustee for LSF9 Master Participation Trust, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-court equitable-powers fraud mortgage-foreclosure proof-of-claim res-judicata Rooker-Feldman-doctrine |
Whether claims of fraud in a mortgage foreclosure action are barred by the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and res judicata |
| 20-5529 |
Herman Bernard v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa amendment bankruptcy-court district-court due-process habeas-corpus judgment jurisdictional-defect procedural-rules successive-motions successive-petition |
Whether the Bankruptcy Court erred in denying a motion to amend a petition under the AEDPA, as the Eleventh Circuit has required that a motion to amen… |
| 20-46 |
Port of Corpus Christi Authority of Nueces County, Texas v. Sherwin Alumina Company, LLC, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-jurisdiction debtor-rights due-process in-rem-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity state-property state-property-rights takings |
Whether a bankruptcy court's in rem jurisdiction over a debtor's property allows it to exercise in rem jurisdiction over the separate property of an a… |
| 19-1456 |
KK-PB Financial, LLC v. 160 Royal Palm, LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
|
asset-sale bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-court-discretion bid-procedures debtor-asset debtor-estate debtor's-estate discretionary-power higher-better-offer higher-bid maximize-value-estate private-sale public-bid-procedures sale-maximization |
Does a bankruptcy court abuse its discretion when it cancels public bid procedures and approves the private sale of a debtor's principal asset, even t… |
| 19-1346 |
Viktoria Benkovitch v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-confirmation bankruptcy-confirmation-order bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-plan chapter-11 due-process final-judgment final-order res-judicata secured-creditor |
Which is worse, that a debtor obtains a real property that she already owns, free of any liens, because a secured creditor failed to timely comply wit… |
| 19-1152 |
ISL Loan Trust, et al. v. Millennium Lab Holdings II, LLC, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-court-authority constitutional-authority debtor-creditor-relationship equitable-mootness non-debtor-claims non-debtor-releases nonconsensual-release restructuring restructuring-debtor-creditor stern-v-marshall |
Whether a bankruptcy court has authority to enter final judgment releasing without consent a non-debtor's claims against other non-debtors |
| 19-890 |
Tom Jensen v. Hannah Blumenstiel, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-misconduct bankruptcy-court declaratory-relief due-process injunctive-relief judicial-immunity public-access |
Is a Bankruptcy Court judge absolutely immune from a complaint for injunctive and declaratory relief for denial of public access to the court? |
| 18-1337 |
Robert Rael, et ux. v. Patrick S. Layng, United States Trustee, Region 19 |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-727 bankruptcy bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-court-jurisdiction chapter-11 chapter-11-plan chapter-eleven-plan civil-procedure court-order debtor post-confirmation property-of-estate property-of-the-estate subject-matter-jurisdiction willful-disobedience |
Whether a bankruptcy court's subject matter jurisdiction over what was property of the bankruptcy estate continues after the confirmation of a Chapter… |
| 18-1229 |
In Re Carolyn Fjord, et al. |
|
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
7th-amendment antitrust antitrust-law bankruptcy bankruptcy-court beacon-theaters civil-procedure civil-rights clayton-act due-process jury-trial mandamus seventh-amendment |
Does the decision of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York denying Petitioners the right to a jury trial for damage… |
| 18-8304 |
Whitney N. Broach v. David G. Peake, Chapter 13 Trustee |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-mistakes bankruptcy-attorney bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-filings bankruptcy-judge bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-petition bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect federal-courts federal-rules-civil-procedure medical-bills procedural-rights |
Does a Federal Bankruptcy Judge deny the debtor's procedural and substantive due process by holding the debtor responsible for the Bankruptcy Attorney… |
| 18-957 |
NextEra Energy, Inc. v. Elliott Associates, L.P., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
11-usc-363 11-usc-503 bankruptcy bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-sale breakup-fee business-judgment-rule circuit-split debtor section-363 section-503 |
Whether a debtor's decision to agree to a negotiated breakup fee should be reviewed under the business judgment rule or a heightened standard |
| 18-920 |
Margaret Adeline Veltre v. Fifth Third Bank |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
antecedent-debt bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-547 bankruptcy-court chapter-7-bankruptcy circuit-split creditor-rights insolvency liquidation-value preferential-transfer property-transfer property-valuation sheriff-sale valuation |
Whether the Bankruptcy Code mandates a Bankruptcy Court determine the value of property transferred to a creditor within ninety days prior to a Bankru… |
| 18-6799 |
Maurice R. Nash v. Wachovia Bank, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-law civil-rights color-of-state-law congress congress-authority constitutional-rights due-process judicial-authority legal-jurisdiction state-law |
Do the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of Los Angeles, California 90012, Case Number LA02-30368TD, Acting under the Color of t… |
| 18-299 |
Ross Harry Briggs v. Charles E. Rendlen, III, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii bankruptcy bankruptcy-court civil-procedure claims-allowance creditor-debtor creditor-debtor-relations due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction separation-of-powers |
Whether a federal claim pending before an Article I bankruptcy judge and intertwined with the bankruptcy but resolvable outside the claims allowance p… |