bankruptcy-jurisdiction

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25-463 Clean Air Car Service & Parking Branch Three, LLC v. Clean Air Car Service & Parking Branch Two, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-16 Denied bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-sale good-faith-purchaser rooker-feldman subject-matter-jurisdiction ucc-sale There are two issues presented for review: (1) whether the Bankruptcy Court has subject matter jurisdiction over a bankruptcy petition under 28 U.S.C…
25-134 Jannie Robinson Tisdell v. Elizabeth Bryne Hogan, Judge, Circuit Court of Missouri, City of St. Louis, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-08-04 Dismissed bankruptcy-jurisdiction core-bankruptcy-estate due-process fraud-debt property-dispute subject-matter-jurisdiction May a State Court have subject matter jurisdiction to hear a case over a property dispute if creditor subsequently filed a core proof of claim in an a…
25-108 Donald Wayne Bush, et ux. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied Amici (1) bankruptcy-jurisdiction circuit-split judicial-authority non-dischargeable-debt statutory-interpretation tax-liabilities 1. Whether 11 U.S.C. §505(a)(1) confers jurisdiction on the bankruptcy court to adjudicate the amount and legality of a debtor's tax liabilities. 2. …
23-729 Roee Kiviti, et ux. v. Naveen Prasad Bhatt Fourth Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii article-three-courts bankruptcy-courts bankruptcy-jurisdiction case-or-controversy civil-procedure constitutional-law judicial-review mootness mootness-doctrine standing Whether bankruptcy courts are bound by the case-or-controversy requirement of Article III of the Constitution
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
23-702 Sander L. Esserman, in His Official Capacity as Future Claims Representative v. Bestwall LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-12-29 Denied asbestos-litigation bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-standard corporate-reorganization debtor-protection likelihood-of-success non-debtor-litigation organizational-restructuring preliminary-injunction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a sophisticated corporate defendant may use an organizational reshuffling to devise bankruptcy jurisdiction for a nationwide preliminary injun…
23-675 Official Committee of Asbestos Claimants v. Bestwall LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied Amici (2) 11-U.S.C-105(a) 28-U.S.C-1334(b) asbestos-liabilities bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction collusion-presumption non-debtor-injunction non-debtors related-to-jurisdiction section-105a section-1334b Whether transactions between related business entities are subject to a presumption of collusion in violation of 28-U.S.C-1359
23-470 Kimberly Bruce, aka Kimberly A. Bruce, aka Kimberly Antrell Bruce v. Citigroup, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2023-11-03 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-jurisdiction civil-procedure class-action class-certification due-process national-class rule-7023 statutory-injunction Whether a bankruptcy court has jurisdiction under Bankruptcy Rule 7023 to certify a national class
23-5341 Regina Nachael Howell Foster v. Areya Holder Aurzada, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction barton-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights due-process removal removal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals' memorandum opinion directly conflict with an opinion by other Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court?
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…
22-744 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
22-188 Patrick J. O'Connell v. Jonna Z. Bianco Kentucky 2022-08-30 Denied 11-usc-362 11-usc-521 11-usc-541 28-usc-1334 28-usc-157 bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction constitutional-rights due-process federal-bankruptcy-code judicial-estoppel state-court-jurisdiction Bankruptcy-jurisdiction-and-procedure
21-1434 VSP Labs, Incorporated v. Hillair Capital Investments L.P., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-12 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1334(b) anticipated-outcome-test bankruptcy-jurisdiction celotex-corp-v-edwards conceivable-effect-test court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction judicial-test related-to-jurisdiction significant-connection-test statutory-interpretation What test determines whether a bankruptcy court has 'related to' jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1334(b)?
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
21-109 California State Lands Commission v. Eugene Davis, Liquidating Trustee of the Venoco Liquidating Trust, et al. Third Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied 11th-amendment bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction inverse-condemnation liquidating-trust post-confirmation-claim sovereign-immunity state-agency state-lands state-treasury Whether the States' consent to suit in the bankruptcy courts, found to exist in Katz, reaches a suit brought against a State, after the effective date…
20-1201 Michael D. J. Eisenberg v. Shirley Swain District of Columbia 2021-03-01 Denied bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-law concurrent-jurisdiction core-bankruptcy-funds court-order-validity federal-bankruptcy-law federal-law-interpretation fraud-discharge judicial-conduct judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct void-orders Whether a local court can order release of core bankruptcy funds when it does not assume concurrent jurisdiction per 28-U.S.C.-§-1334(b)
20-1096 Philip Jay Fetner v. Hotel Street Capital, LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response Waived appeals appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction chapter-11-bankruptcy civil-rights constitutional-appeal constitutional-rights due-process final-order mootness Whether the appellate courts erred in denying a constitutional appeal on the false premise of lack of jurisdiction
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?
20-680 Lee Wendell Loder v. Icemakers, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-court-jurisdiction bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure debt-dischargeability federal-courts judicial-authority money-judgment nondischargeable-debt Whether a bankruptcy court has the jurisdictional authority to render a liquidated money judgment at the same time that it determines a debt to be non…
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…
19-7579 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…
18-9103 Milton Thomas, Sr. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1334 article-iii bankruptcy-court-jurisdiction bankruptcy-jurisdiction congressional-intent district-court-jurisdiction fraudulent-transfer non-core-proceeding non-core-proceedings stem-v-marshall stern-v-marshall Can the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals deny the Act of Congress conferring original and exclusive jurisdiction on the District Court of all civil procee…
18-1221 Peli Popovich Hunt v. David M. Goodrich, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction-mandate appellate-review arizona-christian-sch-tuition-org-v-winn bankruptcy-amendment-interpretations bankruptcy-amendments-overrule-pre-code-interpreta bankruptcy-court-adjunct-appellate-court-jurisdict bankruptcy-court-jurisdiction-limits bankruptcy-court-power bankruptcy-decision-abrogation bankruptcy-decision-statutory-basis bankruptcy-decision-without-statutory-basis bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-jurisdiction-distinctions bankruptcy-jurisdiction-dominance bankruptcy-jurisdiction-interpretations bernards-v-johnson bnsf-ry-co-v-tyrell calflin-v-houseman challenge-to-federal-law civil-procedure clearly-abrogated-principle cutler-v-rae czyzewski-v-jevic-holding-corp davis-v-dewakelee davis-v-wakelee emil-v-hanley ex-parte-rowland ex-parte-siebold federal-law-challenge federal-law-challenges hamilton-v-lanning intra-circuit-conflicts isaacs-v-hobbs-tie-timber-co jurisdictional-analysis kuehner-v-dickinson-co lower-courts-power-to-ignore-law miss Does bankruptcy jurisdiction consist of more than one type of jurisdiction, and if so, is one type of jurisdiction more dominant than all the other ty…
18-1218 Buchwald Capital Advisors LLC, Litigation Trustee to the Greektown Litigation Trust v. Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-03-20 Dismissed bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-law indian-tribes sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tribal-law Whether the Bankruptcy Code abrogates the sovereign immunity of Indian tribes
18-1018 Andrew Bennett, et al. v. Jefferson County, Alabama Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response Waived article-ii article-iii-review bankruptcy-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process equitable-mootness federalism municipal-utilities plan-of-adjustment ratemaking-authority sewer-user-rates standing takings tenth-amendment Bankruptcy court's exclusive power over municipal sewer ratemaking
18-784 Eldon Bugg v. Marc Honey, et al. Missouri 2018-12-20 Denied bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-law common-law-torts diversity-jurisdiction due-process fourteenth-amendment national-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction Whether respondents' appearance in Missouri state court while the bankruptcy case was still open constituted presence in Missouri for purposes of pers…
18-5548 Brian Tuttle v. Allied Nevada Gold Corp., et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review article-iii-courts bankruptcy-appeals bankruptcy-courts bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-law constitutional-rights equitable-mootness judicial-doctrine statutory-interpretation Whether Article III courts can refuse to exercise appellate jurisdiction assigned to them by Congress over final decisions of non-Article III bankrupt…
18-27 Estate of Juanita Jackson, et al. v. Rubin Schron Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied all-writs-act bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction consent injunctive-relief judicial-authority jurisdiction non-core-proceedings permanent-injunction state-law-claims Can bankruptcy courts use the All Writs Act to expand their jurisdiction and authority beyond the confines of the Bankruptcy Code? And if so, can they…