bankruptcy-estate

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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…
24-5764 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…
23-1289 Machele L. Goetz v. Victor Felix Weber, Chapter 7 Trustee Eighth Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-348 11-usc-541 bankruptcy-estate chapter-13 chapter-7 legislative-history legislative-intent post-petition-interests statutory-interpretation Whether post-petition interests in assets are included in the bankruptcy estate upon conversion from Chapter 13 to Chapter 7
23-1157 Robert W. Remmert v. Briar Capital Working Fund Capital, L.L.C., as Assignee of South Coast Supply Company Fifth Circuit 2024-04-24 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-547 avoidance-action avoidance-powers bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-preference bankruptcy-sale estate-standing fifth-circuit res-nova standing statutory-powers Whether an avoidance action can be sold and whether the sale will confer standing on the purchaser to prosecute the avoidance action
23-875 Estate of Arlene Townsend, et al. v. Steven M. Berman, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-327 bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-disclosure bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-professionals bankruptcy-trustee burden-shifting court-discretion fed-r-bankr-p-2014 professional-conflicts trustee-obligations Can bankruptcy courts effectively shift the burden as to 11 U.S.C. § 327 employment, absolving bankruptcy professionals from the burden of complete di…
23-724 WVSV Holdings, LLC v. 10K, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-jurisdiction chapter-11-plan judicial-estoppel new-hampshire-v-maine post-petition-claim postconfirmation-jurisdiction state-law-tort state-law-tort-claim Whether a debtor's state law tort claim that only accrues following the bankruptcy petition date is property of the bankruptcy estate
23-655 Lawrence J. Warfield v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied bankruptcy-estate debtor-interests homestead-exemption penalty-lien tax-delinquencies trustee-avoidance trustee-rights unsecured-creditors When a bankruptcy court allows a state homestead exemption, is the debtor's exempt interest in the residence instantaneously removed from the bankrupt…
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…
23-148 SR Construction, Inc. v. RE Palm Springs II, LLC, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Response Waived adverse-claims bankruptcy-code-363(m) bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-sale foreclosure good-faith good-faith-purchaser section-363(m) superior-lien Whether a purchaser with notice of adverse claims that the property is not part of the bankruptcy estate and is subject to foreclosure based on a supe…
22-7058 Michael S. Helmstetter v. David Herzog, Trustee, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bankruptcy-debtor bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-standing court-valuation debtor-rights due-process settlement-challenge standing supervisory-authority valuation Did lower courts err in ruling that a bankruptcy debtor lacked standing to object to settlement of claims against third parties despite evidence of a …
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…
22-408 Alice Guan v. Ellingsworth Residential Community Association, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-01 Denied adversary-proceeding appellate-review bankruptcy-court-order bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice final-order judicial-activity standing Whether district court's order dismissing case 6:20-ap-55 with prejudice is a final order that Eleventh Circuit must review
22-395 Wheeler Financial, Inc. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-10-27 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-estate chapter-11 claims claims-bar-date due-process lien lien-extinguishment notice notice-requirement proof-of-claim Whether a lien is extinguished by operation of § 1141(c) of the Bankruptcy Code
21-1448 Dustin Jade Wells v. Kathleen A. McCallister Ninth Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) asset-liquidation bankruptcy bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-filing bankruptcy-petition bankruptcy-proceedings debtor-rights homestead-exemption property-interests property-rights Whether a homestead exemption to which a debtor is entitled on the date of bankruptcy filing can be lost if the debtor sells the homestead during the …
21-1253 Philip Jay Fetner v. Kevin R. McCarthy, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied 28-usc-455a bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-settlement bar-order chapter-7-trustee due-process fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty judicial-recusal stern-v-marshall Did the Chapter 7 Trustee fail to provide transparency and observe its fiduciary duties to Debtor, all as allowed by the Bankruptcy Court?
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
19-357 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 …
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…
18-1302 Robertson B. Cohen, Chapter 7 Trustee v. Andrea Chernushin Tenth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-541 bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-estate-property-rights bankruptcy-jurisprudence bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split federal-preemption federal-rule-1016 federal-rule-of-bankruptcy-procedure-1016 federal-statute property-law property-rights statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause Whether the Tenth Circuit Opinion renders 11 U.S.C. § 541 subordinate to state property law and contravenes Congressional intent in enacting § 541 and…
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…
18-562 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