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25-6795 Norman Lee Scott, Sr. v. Whitney R. Bailey, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-12 Pending IFP bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure court-discretion due-process fresh-start-policy judicial-estoppel 1. Whether a federal court may apply judicial estoppel to dismiss a civil action when the debtor reopened the bankruptcy case, amended the schedules w…
25-602 Ray Leonerdirt Díaz Santiago v. José Ramon Cárrion Morales, Chapter 13 Trustee, et al. First Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction article-iii bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-violation due-process mandate-stay 1. Whether a federal court of appeals violates Due Process and exceeds its jurisdiction under Article III by denying an emergency stay request without…
25-527 Iván Vechioli Cruz, et al. v. Kiyomi M. Santos Onoda First Circuit 2025-10-31 Denied bankruptcy-procedure creditor-rights due-process judicial-review rooker-feldman-doctrine summary-judgment Whether if; United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, CASE NO. 24-1290 decided correctly validating United States Bankruptcy Court for the…
25-128 Korean Claimants v. Dow Silicones Corporation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-08-04 Denied administrative-notice bankruptcy-procedure claim-denial cross-border-equity due-process settlement-facility This case presents a question that the Closing Orders for Dow Corning breast implant Settlement Facility and its Program, issued by the District Court…
24-6840 In Re Lolonyon Y. Akouete 2025-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy-appeal bankruptcy-procedure due-process finality-doctrine irreparable-harm judicial-review Whether the First Circuit and Bankruptcy Appellate Panel erred in dismissing Petitioner's appeal for lack of finality by narrowly interpreting the For…
24-1002 Steven C. Fustolo v. The Patriot Group, LLC Massachusetts 2025-03-20 Denied automatic-stay bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-stay judicial-enforcement legal-remedy state-court-injunction Does an automatic stay in bankruptcy prevent a state from enforcing a pre-stay state court injunction against a bankruptcy petitioner during the perio…
24-791 Barry J. Byrnes v. Sylvia Marie Byrnes Tenth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights district-court-review eighth-amendment judicial-sanctions jury-trial-right Did the bankruptcy judge enter an illegal judgment and violate Petitioner's right to a jury trial in district court on the tort claims?
24-195 Bensam Swakeen v. Mary S. Pandian, et al. Second Circuit 2024-08-21 Denied bankruptcy-fraud bankruptcy-procedure due-process financial-disclosure judicial-misconduct summary-judgment Whether the bankruptcy court improperly handled summary judgment and financial disclosure procedures in a complex bankruptcy case involving potential …
24-149 Kai Hansjurgens v. Donald Bailey Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-12 Denied 11th-circuit bankruptcy-procedure due-process erie-doctrine federal-common-law state-law Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals improperly interpreted state law, federal bankruptcy rules, and Erie doctrine principles in its decision
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…
23-1336 Noel West Lane, III v. Matthew Curtis Witt, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure due-process fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion manifest-fraud pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation procedural-error Should the Supreme Court provide guidance on mandatory accommodation of judicial discretion to ensure fair hearings for pro se litigants and clarify i…
23-894 Gregory O. Garmong v. Maupin, Cox & Legoy Ninth Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied 28-usc-1447c bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure federal-procedure martin-v-franklin-capital-corp remand-fees removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit is employing a new and incorrect standard for remand fees under 28 U.S.C. § 1447(c)
23-6633 Daryl Anthony Green v. Prince George's County Office of Child Support, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-31 Denied IFP appeal appeal-rights bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-jurisdiction due-process judicial-misconduct jurisdiction property-rights standing Did Mr. Green have the right to appeal the entire case and all previously unheard issues raised in the lower courts once the bankruptcy matter was dis…
23-6569 Leonard Nyamusevya v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process in-rem-action judicial-report property-rights rule-9011 takings Is a per se taking when Rule 9011 and Constitutions were violated, where a paid off home was taken in violation of § 524(a) and O.R.C. § 2329 and Rule…
23-6189 Karen Gail Brainen Kleinman v. Cynthia A. Norton, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Missouri Eighth Circuit 2023-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-exemption bankruptcy-exemptions bankruptcy-procedure collateral-estoppel creditor-rights due-process judicial-immunity res-judicata stare-decisis statutory-interpretation Whether the intent of Congress in enacting 11 U.S.C. §522(1) and Fed.R.Bankr.P. 4003(b) as interpreted by this Court's precedential and controlling de…
23-489 Office of the United States Trustee v. USA Sales, Inc., dba Statewide Distributors, a California Corporation Ninth Circuit 2023-11-08 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-law bankruptcy-administrators bankruptcy-fees bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-trustees constitutional-uniformity judicial-remedy retrospective-refunds statutory-interpretation Whether the appropriate remedy for the constitutional uniformity violation found by this Court in Siegel, supra, is to require the United States Trust…
23-5967 Andrew Delaney v. Gregory Messer, Chapter 7 Trustee, et al. Second Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure chapter-7 circuit-split civil-procedure due-process exemption-law settlement-valuation standing trustee trustee-conflict Does the U.S. Trustee Program create conflicts of interest?
22-1229 Ronnie D. Ward, et al. v. Cross Keys Bank, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied appellate-review article-iii-court bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review state-law-claim subject-matter-jurisdiction supervisory-power Should a case removed to bankruptcy court proceed through three levels of federal court without proof of subject matter jurisdiction?
22-1182 Robert Walker, et al. v. U.S. Bank N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied administrative-law bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion judicial-overreach local-rules statutory-interpretation Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Mandate infringes on the Fourteenth Amendment
22-1183 Robert Walker, et al. v. K. Drake Ozment, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion judicial-overreach local-court-rules standing statutory-interpretation Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Mandate infringes on the Fourteenth Amendment
22-1184 Robert Walker, et al. v. Barry S. Mittelberg, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied 11th-circuit abuse-of-discretion appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-rules civil-procedure due-process judicial-estoppel property-disclosure standing Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals exercised its discretion in err
22-7293 Baboucar B. Taal v. John Cronin, Commissioner, et al. First Circuit 2023-04-14 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeal-as-a-right automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights de-novo-review due-process impartial-adjudication judicial-bias recusal Whether the First Circuit's refusal to undertake a de novo review with claims that pro se appellant did not develop his case for them to 'review' when…
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…
22-810 Andrea Liebman v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review pro-tunc-order standing willful-violation Did the 11th US Court of Appeals err in affirming the Bankruptcy Court's use of an arbitrary Nunc Pro Tunc technique after a willful violation of the …
22-6797 Dominick Galluzzo v. Internal Revenue Service Third Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-misconduct bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure irs iRS-assessment judicial-misconduct proof-of-claim tax-court tax-dispute venue venue-selection Was the petitioner mis-represented at bankruptcy by their attorney not asking for attachments to PROOF OF CLAIM according to rule 3001 and B10 (exhibi…
22-765 Cyrus Capital Partners, L.P. v. Sears Holdings Corporation Second Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-valuation collateral collateral-standard debtor-retention rash-v-associates replacement-value secured-debt valuation Whether Bankruptcy Code § 506(a) authorizes a court to value collateral retained by the debtor under a standard other than 'replacement value' when th…
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
22-5901 William Paul Burch v. Areya Holder Aurzada Fifth Circuit 2022-10-25 Dismissed IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-transparency corruption due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-ethics salaried-employees transparency Should a bankruptcy judge be obligated to grant due process to a debtor?
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…
22-5787 William Paul Burch v. Freedom Mortgage Corporation, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-10-07 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeals-procedure bankruptcy-lien bankruptcy-lien-extinguishment bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-order debtor-rights in-forma-pauperis mortgage-servicing pro-se-litigation property-return void-lien If a mortgage holder and/or a mortgage service company were to have their lien extinguished in bankruptcy and then refuse to accept payments should th…
22-18 Cuker Interactive, LLC v. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Ninth Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure case-law choice-of-law circuit-split federal-courts federal-jurisdiction forum-state judicial-interpretation substantive-law Whether federal courts must apply forum state or federal choice-of-law rules in bankruptcy cases
21-1582 In Re Jack R. Finnegan 2022-06-23 Denied 28-usc-455 bankruptcy-procedure bias-and-prejudice constitution-questions-and-federal-laws constitutional-taking due-process federal-jurisdiction inferior-officer judicial-bias liteky-v-united-states rule-22(a) Why is the Inferior Officer who was disqualified in June, 2018, for Bias and Prejudice, allowed to be in defiance to the order of the United States Su…
21-1578 Quannah L. Harris v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure damages fraud fraud-claims fraudulent-intent materiality reliance rule-9b Did the Court misapprehended the law and facts in affirming the District Court's decision to dismiss the fraud claims based on the failure to state a …
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…
21-1096 Alice Guan v. Ellingsworth Residential Community Association, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-07 Denied appeal-rights appeals bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure court-order due-process final-order judicial-error procedural-rules standing Whether the Courts Erred by Misstating Alice's Appeal
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
21-6281 Mac Truong v. Rosemary I. Mergenthaler, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied IFP abuse-of-authority appeal-consolidation bankruptcy-procedure barton-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process false-findings justice obstruction-of-justice subject-matter-jurisdiction trustee-immunity Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit criminally obstruct justice and/or abuse and/or exceed its legal authority
21-6066 R. Susan Woods v. Alina's Real Estate, LLC First Circuit 2021-10-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review disability due-process equal-protection indigent-rights judicial-discretion standing Under what circumstances is it appropriate for the courts to refuse accommodation to the disabled?
21-263 Kimbro Stephens Insurance Trust, et al. v. James E. Smith, Jr., et al. Arkansas 2021-08-24 Denied Response Waived attorney-termination bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure client-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment lawyer-discharge legal-malpractice standing Whether a client has a right to discharge a lawyer at any time
21-5385 Albert M. Kun v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights due-process excessive-fine fifth-amendment fourth-amendment state-bar timbs-standard timbs-v-indiana Whether the approximately $40,000 fine assessed by the State Bar is an excessive fine under Timbs v. Indiana 586 U.S.—(2019) for a $460-financial viol…
21-5069 William Paul Burch v. Freedom Mortgage Corporation, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-precedent due-process judicial-overreach jurisdiction pro-se-litigation standing statutory-interpretation Is a Circuit court allowed to establish new precedence by disregarding and/or overruling twenty-four statutes written by the Congress of the United St…
21-8 Wilma M. Pennington-Thurman v. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights creditor-rights due-process fraud-on-court judicial-ethics preclusion priority-rules standing Question not identified.
20-1075 John Robert Reichard, et ux. v. Russell A. Brown, Chapter 13 Trustee Ninth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure chapter-13-bankruptcy due-process federal-statutory-interpretation local-rules privacy privacy-protection tax-return-confidentiality tax-returns Whether the privacy protections due Chapter 13 bankruptcy debtors' income tax returns can be denied by a local rule of bankruptcy procedure
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…
20-175 Jinil Steel Company, Limited v. ValuePart, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response Waived appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure forfeiture judicial-discretion legal-forfeiture oral-argument pleadings preservation-of-error procedural-preservation Whether a litigant forfeits an argument by raising it thoroughly in an oral proceeding in bankruptcy court or other court of first instance, but not i…
19-8851 Peter Szanto v. Alyce Ann Jurgens Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-157 bankruptcy-procedure district-court-review due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigation res-judicata Whether the lower courts erred in disregarding the mandatory requirements of 28 USC § 157(c) and in exhibiting irrational bias against the pro se peti…
19-8556 Kehinde Adeyemi Elebute v. Village Capital and Investment, LLC Fifth Circuit 2020-05-28 Denied IFP bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-courts judgment-entry judgments judicial-succession motion-reconsideration procedural-timeline recusal rule-60b standing Whether a successor to a judge that retired may refuse to consider a Rule 60(b)(1) motion on the grounds that he does not reconsider orders entered by…
19-8288 Mac Truong, et al. v. R. Kenneth Barnard, et al. Second Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 341(a)-meeting asset-collection bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-procedure chapter-7 chapter-7-trustee creditor-meeting debtor-rights discharge discharge-denial trustee May a Chapter 7 Trustee proceed to collect a Chapter 7 Debtor's assets before the Debtor would have successfully attended at least one 11 USC 341(a) C…
19-787 Michael Lynn Robertson v. Banner Bank Tenth Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied appellate-jurisdiction bankruptcy-appeal bankruptcy-appeals bankruptcy-procedure claim-processing-rule federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-bankruptcy-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdictional-requirement jurisdictional-requirements notice-of-appeal whether-an-untimely-motion-to-alter-or-amend-a-jud Whether the time prescription for filing an appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 158(c)(2) is a jurisdictional requirement
19-6771 Larry Wayne Parr v. Simon E. Rodriguez Tenth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-definition bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-procedures business-trust chapter-11 chapter-11-conversion chapter-7 corporation debtor-status homestead-exemption statutory-interpretation Is the LARRY W. PARR LIVING TRUST a 'business trust' and 'corporation' under the Bankruptcy Code?
19-6105 Avram Moshe Perry v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP abstention amendment-of-pleadings bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-discrimination due-process equitable-powers federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion pro-se-plaintiff procedural-due-process standing Whether Congress had provided that in an American civilized federal court system a judge can use an unlimited discretion to outrageously discriminate …
19-5372 Mary Katherine Day-Petrano v. Charles D. Hall, et al. Florida 2019-07-29 Dismissed IFP ada-violation americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-fees bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-amendment retroactive-application standing statutory-construction takings Whether the Florida Supreme Court's order requiring the petitioner to write a longer brief and award attorney's fees to the respondent violates the pe…
19-5109 Wayne English v. Roadhouse Holding Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-bankruptcy-procedure first-amendment-rights mail-delivery notice notice-of-appeal usps Whether the actions of the Bankruptcy Court in intercepting and redirecting only USPS mail delivery prevents litigants from the timely filing of their…
18-9831 Jacqueline C. Melcher v. John W. Richardson Ninth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy-court-orders bankruptcy-fees bankruptcy-objections bankruptcy-orders bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-standing bankruptcy-trustee constitutional-rights due-process fees-and-expenses judicial-discretion prudential-standing retroactive-voiding trustee-fees trustee-wrongdoing Whether a bankruptcy trustee can retroactively void previous bankruptcy court orders that granted a debtor the right to object to the trustee's fees a…
18-1349 Charles G. Kinney v. Michele Renee Clark Ninth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-524 attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-crimes bankruptcy-fraud bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights creditor-misconduct criminal-concealment criminal-law discharge-injunction discharge-violation discharged-debtor due-process fraud judicial-misconduct statutory-interpretation Whether the motion to re-open was justified due to crimes (e.g. fraud) and judicial accessories-after-the-fact
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
18-8887 Miriam Soler v. Capital One Auto Finance Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied IFP appeal appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-interpretation courts-of-appeal due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause federal-rules-of-bankruptcy-procedure original-jurisdiction rule-of-law Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals infringed the ex-post-facto-clause, depriving Petitioner's right of remedy sustaining no due-process at …
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…
18-1178 Christopher Paige, et ux. v. Lerner Master Fund, LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-discrimination judicial-review procedural-fairness speedy-trial When the lower courts deny important substantive and procedural rights to protected minorities, may they simply refuse to explain their rationale(s) f…
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…
18-1110 Cecil Daughtrey, et ux. v. Luis E. Rivera Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response Waived army-corps-of-engineers bankruptcy-code-conversion bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-trustee bankruptcy-trustee-duties chapter-11-conversion debtor-interests department-of-interior department-of-justice due-process environmental-protection environmental-protection-agency government-agencies national-defense property-dispute property-rights trustee-actions us-government water-resource water-rights Denial of Chapter 11 conversion to hide unique global drinking water and energy resource
18-974 Mar-Bow Value Partners, LLC v. McKinsey Recovery & Transformation Services US LLC Fourth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied access-to-records article-iii article-iii-courts bankruptcy-conflicts bankruptcy-disclosure bankruptcy-fiduciary bankruptcy-integrity bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-standing integrity-of-process judicial-review pecuniary-interest persons-aggrieved standing Whether Article III federal courts may apply the 'persons aggrieved' pecuniary-interest test to preclude judicial review of orders entered by an Artic…
18-637 Donald C. Marro v. Caesar's Entertainment Operating Company Seventh Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-158 access bankruptcy-court-clerk bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-deprivations" due-process equal-protection equal-protection-and-access frbp judicial-access mail-filing-rules pro-se-litigation pro-se-status property-deprivation USPS-mail-filings Does it violate equal protection and access, is it a property deprivation (i.e., the civil action for damages) and FRBP and 28 USC 158 violation when …
18-560 Peaje Investments LLC v. The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied agency-discretion agency-regulation bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-statutory-lien bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court-conflict circuit-split court-of-appeals due-process lien-definition property-interest property-rights puerto-rico-law secured-creditor statutory-lien Whether a lien is a 'statutory lien' under the Bankruptcy Code
18-489 Bradley Weston Taggart v. Shelley A. Lorenzen, Executor of the Estate of Stuart Brown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-16 Judgment Issued Amici (8) bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-procedure civil-contempt creditor-good-faith creditor-rights debtor-rights discharge-injunction good-faith judicial-conflict Whether a creditor's good-faith belief that the discharge injunction does not apply precludes a finding of civil contempt
18-244 Charles E. Woide, et ux. v. Federal National Mortgage Association Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-code-interpretation bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split consumer-protection consumer-rights consummation contractual-obligation creditor-defenses creditor-rights declaratory-relief notice-of-rescission regulation-z rescission rescission-notice statutory-interpretation truth-in-lending-act Whether the rescission is effectuated upon mailing of notice where no challenge was raised within 20 days of receipt of said notice?
18-5765 DeAndre Russell v. Redstone Federal Credit Union, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-rights bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation disqualification due-process judicial-bias pro-se res-judicata Has the refusal to properly adjudicate this case by the Eleventh Circuit presented prejudice and bias against the petitioner pro se?
18-208 New Products Corporation, et al. v. Dickinson Wright, PLLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure costs-of-compliance court-order court-sanctions discovery federal-rules-civil-procedure non-party-costs non-party-subpoena rule-45 sanctions subpoena subpoena-compliance Whether a non-party subpoena recipient is automatically entitled to recover significant expenses incurred in responding to a subpoena before a court o…
18-142 Allana Baroni v. The Bank of New York Mellon, fka The Bank of New York Ninth Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-501 bankruptcy bankruptcy-creditor bankruptcy-procedure blank-indorsement chapter-11 creditor creditor-rights deed-of-trust federal-rules-bankruptcy-procedure federal-rules-of-bankruptcy-procedure promissory-note standing When a party to a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case contends it can enforce the terms of promissory note and deed of trust, can it prove it is a 'creditor' e…
18-141 Allana Baroni v. CIT Bank N.A., fka OneWest Bank FSB, fka OneWest Bank NA Ninth Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-501 bankruptcy bankruptcy-creditor bankruptcy-procedure blank-indorsement burden-of-proof chapter-11 creditor creditor-rights deed-of-trust federal-rules-bankruptcy-procedure federal-rules-of-bankruptcy-procedure promissory-note standing When a party to a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case contends it can enforce the terms of promissory note and deed of trust, can it prove it is a 'creditor' e…
18-10 Stephen J. Anderson, et ux. v. Gary L. Rainsdon, Chapter 7 Trustee Ninth Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied appeal-time-limits appeals bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-trustee chapter-7-bankruptcy civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure official-capacity standing statutory-interpretation time-to-appeal united-states-officer Whether a Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee is a 'United States officer or employee sued in an official capacity' for the purposes of Fed. R. App. 4(a)(1)(…