| 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 … |
| 24A1243 |
Richard W. Gannett v. Nahabet Cimenian |
First Circuit |
2025-06-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
adversary-proceeding appellate-standing bankruptcy-discharge disincorporation section-727 state-court-injunction |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
REGARDING BANKRUPTCY
1. Whether a Bankruptcy Discharge, can Protect a Party,from Liability for Fraud ulent Acts that were Committed. Specifically* Co… |
| 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 |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. PHH seeks review of a decision of a divided panel of the Fourth Circuit that creates a direct conflict among the courts of appeals on an important … |
| 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 |
May a debtor in bankruptcy 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 |
The decision below is the first by a circuit court in history to hold that the Constitution prohibits a category of unsecured claims from being discha… |
| 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 |
1. 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).
2. Whether the … |
| 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 |
Section 524 of the United States Bankruptcy Code provides that a bankruptcy discharge "operates as an injunction against the commencement or continuat… |
| 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 |
1. Where the court of appeals did not allow evidence, witness and expert testimony at trial on the Settlement Agreement, should this Court summarily g… |
| 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 |
1. Is a products liability complaint subject to
dismissal, pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6), Fed. R. Civ. P.,
consistent with the fifth amendment's Due Proce… |
| 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 |
May commercial lenders create non-dischargeable debts by placing language in the promissory notes that identifies the loan as a "student loan," "educa… |
| 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 |
1. 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
Californ… |
| 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 |
1. 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 ext… |
| 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. Whether the equal protection c… |
| 20-519 |
State Bar of California, et al. v. Lenore L. Albert-Sheridan |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
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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 |
The Bankruptcy Code exempts from discharge "any debts * * * for willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another entity or to the property of ano… |
| 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 |
Under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(6), a debt may not be discharged in bankruptcy if it arises from a "willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another." I… |
| 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 thats not what Petitioner appealed.
Whether or not the United States Truste… |
| 18-1095 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Frances Rothschild, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
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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 |
It is rare for a federal statute to say it "voids" a court judgment, but that is exactly what 11 U.S.C. Sec. 524(a)(1) does. If that decision determin… |
| 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.
Whether the California Supreme Court may order payment of a debt that has … |
| 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 |
I. For a debt arising out of unlawful conduct to be
considered non-dischargeable in bankruptcy
pursuant to Kawaauhau v. Geiger, 523 U.S. 57
(1998), wh… |