bankruptcy-discharge

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25-497 Jacqueline Sterling v. Southlake Nautilus Health & Racquet Club, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2025-10-22 Denied bankruptcy-discharge contempt-hearing discharge-injunction incarceration-damages reputation-damage tort-principles The first question presented is whether Sterling is entitled to compensation for the decades long effect of this incarceration on her reputation? The …
24-838 Sol M. Leiner v. Dow, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-discharge constitutional-provisions federal-court jurisdiction product-liability supreme-court-review Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in dismissing the case involving product liability claims against Dow Defendants and jurisdiction over federal versus …
23A1034 John Paul Salvador v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-21 Presumed Complete bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split late-filed-return nondischargeable-debt tax-debt Whether a late-filed tax return that is accepted by the IRS can be considered a 'return' for purposes of discharging tax debt in bankruptcy under 11 U…
23A518 PHH Mortgage Corporation v. Mark Anthony Guthrie Fourth Circuit 2023-12-07 Presumed Complete bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-discharge debt-collection discharge-injunction preemption state-law-claims Whether the Bankruptcy Code preempts state-law causes of action based on a creditor's efforts to collect debt that has been discharged in bankruptcy
22-7835 Francisco Antonio Cordova v. Maria Luisa Camacho California 2023-06-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bankruptcy-discharge child-support civil-procedure civil-rights creditor-harassment due-process judicial-misconduct notice property property-rights right-to-be-heard Can the Los Angeles Superior Court deny an American Citizen their Due Process rights to adequate notice and the right to be heard when depriving them …
22-502 Spring Valley Produce, Inc., et al. v. Nathan Aaron Forrest, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split civil-procedure debtor-liability discharge fiduciary-capacity fiduciary-duty paca perishable-agricultural-commodities-act statutory-trust Whether a debtor in bankruptcy may discharge liability for unlawfully violating a nonsegregated statutory trust
22-367 Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Cooperative de Ahorro y Credito Abraham Rosa, et al. First Circuit 2022-10-19 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge constitutional-claims equitable-treatment fresh-start just-compensation takings-clause unsecured-claims Are pre-bankruptcy unsecured claims for just compensation under the Takings Clause uniquely non-dischargeable, unlike every other type of unsecured cl…
22-115 Micheal W. Buckner, as Trustee of the United Mine Workers of America 1992 Benefit Plan, et al. v. United States Pipe & Foundry Co., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-05 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 11-usc-101 bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge claims-definition coal-act equitable-relief individual-employer-plan individual-employer-plans statutory-obligations Whether the equitable right to compel a covered company to maintain an IEP is a dischargeable 'claim' under 11 U.S.C. § 101(5)(B)
21-1379 Tim Osicka v. Office of Lawyer Regulation Seventh Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied attorney-disciplinary-proceeding attorney-discipline bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge civil-procedure cost-assessment costs-and-fees government-reimbursement lawyer-regulation nondischargeable-debt pecuniary-loss Did the Court err in determining that an assessment for costs and fees for the Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation (OLR) in an administrative attorn…
21-7206 Chuck Duckworth v. Illinois Illinois 2022-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-injunction creditor-recovery creditors criminal-procedure fresh-start restitution restitution-award state-prosecution Whether a state prosecutor can recover previously discharged debts on behalf of bankruptcy creditors following a criminal prosecution and by way of a …
21-1154 Speech & Language Center, LLC, et al. v. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey New Jersey 2022-02-22 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-discharge civil-settlement contract contract-enforcement contract-law debt-obligation discharge non-dischargeable-debt settlement-agreement Can parties to a civil settlement agree that the payments required under the agreement are not dischargeable in bankruptcy?
21-7106 Leonard Nyamusevya v. Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, et al. Ohio 2022-02-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-amendment court-jurisdiction due-process foreclosure justiciable-controversy mortgage-foreclosure ohio-state-law standing Would the U.S. Constitution not limited to the 5th and the 14th Amendments and Article IV, Section 4(B), of the Ohio Constitution divest the Franklin …
21-1033 Edward Mandel v. White Nile Software, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied appellate-procedure bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-law civil-procedure discharge due-process judicial-review non-dischargeable-claims settlement-agreement Whether the court of appeals erred in declining to allow evidence, witness and expert testimony at trial on the Settlement Agreement
21-572 John M. Sweeney, et ux. v. Eastman Kodak Company Third Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge civil-procedure civil-rights claims-bar-date due-process jones-v-brock latent-injury products-liability rule-12b6 Is a products liability complaint subject to dismissal consistent with the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause?
20-1597 Kathryn MacEwen Conti v. Arrowood Indemnity Company Sixth Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge commercial-lending consumer-protection contract-law debt-classification non-dischargeable-debt promissory-notes student-loans Whether commercial lenders can create non-dischargeable debts by using language in promissory notes that identifies the loan as a 'student loan' or 'e…
20-1418 Sepideh Cirino v. Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge chapter-7 deed-of-trust foreclosure mortgage mortgage-lien nonjudicial-foreclosure promissory-note How can a mortgagor collect on more than the amount of the lien secured by the deed of trust when a debtor in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy in California, as…
20-1076 SE Property Holdings, LLC, as Successor by Merger to Vision Bank v. Jerry D. Gaddy Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Relisted (2) 11-usc-523-a-2-a actual-fraud asset-transfer bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-law circuit-split creditor-rights debtor-protection fraudulent-transfers husky-international-electronics-inc-v-ritz Does a creditor sufficiently state a claim under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(2)(A) to except from discharge a debt for money, property, services, or an extensi…
20-6081 Lenore L. Albert-Sheridan v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied IFP 11-usc-523 bankruptcy-discharge court-costs due-process equal-protection license-suspension professional-licensing state-bar-discipline statutory-interpretation Whether 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(7) bars a debtor from obtaining a discharge of State Bar disciplinary costs under Chapter 7
20-519 State Bar of California, et al. v. Lenore L. Albert-Sheridan Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied 11-usc-523(a)(7) attorney-discipline bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split federal-courts kelly-v-robinson public-protection statutory-interpretation Whether payments ordered by the California Supreme Court as a condition of an attorney's discipline, imposed to protect the public, are non-dischargea…
20-457 MarketGraphics Research Group, Inc. v. David Peter Berge Sixth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Amici (1) bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split debtor-liability discharge intent-standard objective-certainty statutory-interpretation subjective-intent willful-and-malicious-injury willful-injury Whether the 'willful and malicious injury' exception applies only where a debtor has a subjective intent to injure or may also be satisfied by conduct…
19-293 TKC Aerospace Inc. v. Charles Taylor Muhs Fourth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actual-intent bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split intent-requirement malicious-injury objective-certainty objective-standard substantial-certainty willful-and-malicious-injury willful-injury Whether a debtor's conduct qualifies as causing a 'willful and malicious' injury under Section 523(a)(6)
19-24 Jack Rose, et ux. v. David Reaves, Chapter 7 Trustee Ninth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response Waived or the broad definition of 'transfer' contained i -bankruptcy-code -circuit-split -discharge-objection -statutory-interpretation -transfer-definition #NAME? bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-727-a-2-a bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-transfer bankruptcy-trustee discharge in-re-adeeb section-101-54 section-101(54) section-727(a)(2)(a) transfer Whether courts considering an objection to discharge under Section 727(a)(2)(A) of the Bankruptcy Code should apply the narrowly tailored definition o…
18-8994 Abie Wolf, aka Abraham C. Wolf v. Randolph Osherow, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal bankruptcy bankruptcy-appeal bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-rules bankruptcy-trustee court-jurisdiction creditors-meeting discharge discharge-appeal due-process legal-interpretation procedural-error transcript trustee trustee-objection Whether or not the Lower Court is talking about Petitioners Discharge and that's not what Petitioner appealed
18-1095 Charles G. Kinney v. Frances Rothschild, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-code-discharge-injunction bankruptcy-discharge bosse bosse-v-oklahoma constitutional-rights court-judgment creditor-rights discharged-debtor judicial-procedure personal-liability rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine unsecured-creditor Whether 11 U.S.C. Sec. 524(a)(1) and 11 U.S.C. Sec. 524(a)(2) void court judgments that determine a discharged Chapter 7 no asset' debtor still has pe…
18-7911 Albert Miklos Kun v. State Bar of California California 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 11th-amendment 14th-amendment bankruptcy-clause bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-preemption federalism fourteenth-amendment sovereign-immunity standing state-bar Whether petitioner's right to protection by the Eq Whether petitioner's rights protected by the Due P Whether the California Supreme Court may order pay Whether California waived its sovereign immunity to the Bankruptcy Clause
18-271 Zachary N. Trost, et ux. v. Sherry Trost Sixth Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied Relisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge burden-of-proof discharge intent intent-standard kawaauhau-v-geiger non-dischargeable-debt restatement-of-torts wrongful-act wrongful-conduct What evidence is required to show that a wrongdoer intended the consequences of a wrongful act, rather than just the act itself, for a debt to be cons…