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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…
24-1002 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…
24A672 Steven C. Fustolo v. The Patriot Group, LLC Massachusetts 2025-01-10 Presumed Complete bankruptcy-stay constitutional-rights due-process financial-autonomy judgment-enforcement state-court-injunction Whether a state court can impose and enforce a permanent injunction with spending limits on a judgment debtor that potentially infringes on due proces…
24-494 American Warrior, Incorporated, et al. v. Foundation Energy Fund IV-A, L.P., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-01 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay circuit-split statutory-injunction void-vs-voidable Should the Court resolve the circuit split over whether actions taken in violation of the bankruptcy automatic stay are void or merely voidable?
24-5772 Stephen Sewalk v. Valpak Direct Marketing Systems, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy-stay due-process erisa extortion hobbs-act settlement-agreement Whether the Eleventh Circuit sanctioned a violation of due process rights by affirming a trial court's refusal to hold a hearing on a potentially exto…
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…
24-5232 Christopher N. Queen v. James Phelan, et al. Kansas 2024-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11-usc-362 11-usc-524 automatic-stay-violation bankruptcy-stay circuit-court-split constitutional-violation due-process federal-injunction jurisdiction-challenge void-ab-initio void-judgment voidable Whether the five trespasser respondents with primary responsibility for their jurisdiction across 22 years acting in the complete absence of power con…
23-5600 Richard D. Bostwick v. Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, et al. Massachusetts 2023-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure discretion due-process judicial-discretion motion-to-vacate standing time-limitation Whether Bostwick's Appeal was NOT Reviewed by the Lower Courts (Appeals Case No. 21-P-721) given Bostwick's Notice of Appeal
23-99 Wendy B. Adelson v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, nka PHH Mortgage Corporation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-08-02 Denied bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure due-process foreclosure foreclosure-sale mortgage-acceleration mortgage-lender post-acceleration-charges procedural-exception sheriff-sale time-bar Whether post-acceleration charges and fraudulent foreclosure sale adjournment notices constitute irregularities to invalidate the sheriff's deed
22-2 Susan M. Boltz-Rubinstein v. Bank of America, N.A. Third Circuit 2022-06-30 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-362 agency-relationship automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay contractual-control damages damages-limitation lift-stay mortgage-servicer Whether a purported agency relationship between a lift stay beneficiary and a mortgage servicer is a defense to an uncontested stay violation under th…
21-5121 Ben Young v. Crescent Management, LLC, et al. Oklahoma 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11-usc-362 attorney-misconduct automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay creditor debt-collection mortgage-concealment mortgage-payment proof-of-claim Whether attorneys who filed and signed Proof of Claim on behalf of creditor violate automatic stay 11 U.S.C. §362(a)(D)(2)(82) (QO) by concealing mort…
20-1812 Donald C. Kupperstein v. Irene Schall, Personal Representative of the Probate Estate of Fred Kuhn, et al. First Circuit 2021-06-28 Denied Response Waived automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay civil-jurisdiction civil-money-judgment civil-procedure governmental-collection jurisdiction police-power-exception Whether a state court has jurisdiction or authority to determine whether a civil action before it is subject to the automatic stay of 11 USC §362
20-1348 True Harmony, et al. v. United States District Court for the Central District of California Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response Waived automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay civil-rights disqualification due-process federal-constitution federal-judge judicial-bias judicial-disqualification Whether a federal court judge should be disqualified for lack of impartiality due to prior violations of the automatic stay in bankruptcy and denial o…
20-5260 In Re Kenton G. Findlay 2020-08-05 Denied IFP 11-usc-362 14th-amendment 5th-amendment bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay constitutional-violation court-jurisdiction due-process foreclosure property-seizure Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida violated the due process protection of the 5th and 14th Amendments…
19-8826 Andrea Genrette v. Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company Third Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay lower-court manifest-error petition-for-rehearing third-circuit Was the Third Circuit's denial of the Petition for Rehearing an error?
19-8241 Joseph Llewellyn Worrell v. Emigrant Mortgage Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-10 Denied IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay civil-rights due-process foreclosure foreclosure-proceedings mortgage-security preemption servicemembers-civil-relief-act summary-judgment Whether a mortgage security instrument created six days before the underlying promissory note is sufficiently executed to provide standing to foreclos…
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
19-537 Jeffrey G. Thomas v. Norman Solomon, et al. California 2019-10-24 Denied 501(c)(3)-preemption bankruptcy-automatic-stay bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process frivolous-appeal monetary-sanctions new-york-times-v-sullivan public-interest standing state-court-judgment Whether a Judgment of a State Court Violates the Automatic Stay in Bankruptcy
19-6098 Pablo Enrique Rosado-Sanchez v. Puerto Rico Department of Education, et al. First Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied IFP appeal-rights appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-misconduct promesa-act standing supreme-court-review Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals erred in staying the appeal and requiring the appellant to seek relief from the automatic stay in the Title…
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 …
18-1339 Mark Anthony Fornesa, et al. v. Fifth Third Mortgage Company Fifth Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response Waived ' 'appeals' ' 'bankruptcy-law" ' 'civil-rights" ' 'constitutional-law" ' 'foreclosure" ' 'fraud" automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay constitutional-rights constitutional-validity constitutional-violation damages debtor-rights eviction foreclosure foreclosure-fraud fraud-allegation mortgage-dispute mortgage-law property-seizure Unlawful seizure of debtor's property during bankruptcy without relief from stay, fraud against the United States, violation of 4th and 7th Amendment …
18-938 Ritzen Group, Inc. v. Jackson Masonry, LLC Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (3) 28-usc-158 appellate-jurisdiction automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay circuit-split civil-procedure final-order precedent statutory-interpretation Whether an order denying a motion for relief from the automatic stay is a final order under 28 U.S.C. § 158(a)(1)
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
18-331 Rafael Pabon Ortega v. Isabel Llompart Zeno, et al. First Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-law ex-parte-young first-amendment insular-cases promesa puerto-rico section-1983 Whether the automatic stay provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. §§ 362, 922, as incorporated into PROMESA are unconstitutional as applied by t…