creditor-rights

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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…
23-6813 Niki Hamidi v. Ike M. Iqbal California 2024-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-concealment child-support child-support-modification creditor-rights creditors-rights estate-planning fiduciary-duty fraudulent-conveyance uniform-voidable-transactions-act voidable-transactions Whether the creation of a will and trust during child support modification proceedings, with the intent to hide income and assets and fraudulently con…
23-827 Clifton Capital Group, LLC v. Bradley Sharp Ninth Circuit 2024-01-31 Denied Response Waived article-iii article-three-standing bankruptcy bankruptcy-appeal bankruptcy-standing chapter-11 chapter-eleven creditor creditor-rights injury-in-fact standing trustee Whether a creditor has Article III standing to challenge a bankruptcy court order awarding a bonus to the former Chapter 11 trustee when the creditor …
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…
23-425 Douglas F. Mann v. LSQ Funding Group, L.C. Seventh Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied bankruptcy-code creditor-rights creditors diminution-doctrine estate-benefit estate-property fraudulent-transfer preference-law property-interest trustee-recovery Whether a trustee seeking to avoid a fraudulent transfer must demonstrate 'diminution' or 'harm' to the estate or creditors generally when the debtor …
22-908 TLA Claimholders Group v. LATAM Airlines Group S.A., et al. Second Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied bankruptcy-code chapter-11 creditor-rights equity-holders impaired-claims impairment post-petition-interest unimpaired-claims May a Chapter 11 plan classify a creditor's claim as unimpaired without paying any interest owed under the creditor's contract that accrues during the…
22-561 Larry J. Winget, et al. v. Alter Domus, LLC Sixth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived article-iii civil-procedure creditor-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fraudulent-transfer jurisdiction revocable-trust sixth-circuit standing trust-law will-substitute-trust Whether a federal court has jurisdiction to annul a revocable, will-substitute trust and replace it with an irrevocable trust
21-1430 James K. Collins v. Michell R. Zolnier, dba CKC Properties, Top Star Leases Fifth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied actual-fraud bankruptcy bankruptcy-code creditor creditor-rights debt-discharge discharge fraud fraudulent-transfer section-523 Whether the 'actual fraud' bar to discharge under Section 523(a)(2)(A) of the Bankruptcy Code applies when transfers made by the debtor were deliberat…
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.
20-1076 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 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 extensi…
20-499 Nathaniel Richard Hull v. Jeffrey J. Rockwell First Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied attachment bankruptcy bankruptcy-code circuit-split creditor-rights creditors homestead-exemption property-exemption reinvestment state-law Whether a debtor may keep a state-law homestead exemption inside bankruptcy, notwithstanding that the proceeds would be subject to attachment and exec…
20-8 Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, et al. v. Robert R. McCormick Foundation, et al. Second Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied CVSGAmici (4)Relisted (2) bankruptcy-law creditor-rights financial-institution fraudulent-transfers merit-management-group merit-management-precedent preemption Whether the court of appeals correctly held that the presumption against preemption of state law does not apply to creditor-rights claims once federal…
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…
19-969 John M. Marshall, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2020-02-03 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived creditor-rights federal-law property-transfer recharacterization state-law stern-v-commissioner tax-law tax-liability transaction-recharacterization Whether state law or federal law governs the recharacterization of a transaction for federal tax liability purposes
19-555 R. Ray Fulmer, II v. Fifth Third Equipment Finance Company, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied Response Waived asset-valuation bankruptcy-auction bankruptcy-code-section-363 bankruptcy-sale chapter-7 collateral-attack creditor-rights fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty jurisdictional-error non-jurisdictional-error priority-distribution priority-violation priority-violations Whether a final 11 U.S.C. §363 sale order that distributes assets in violation of priority is unenforceable due to jurisdictional error
19-200 Billy F. Hawk, Jr., et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Sixth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response Waived 6901 circuit-split commissioner-v-stern creditor-rights federal-tax-doctrine statutory-interpretation strict-liability tax tax-cases transaction-collapsing transferee-knowledge uniform-fraudulent-transfer-act Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision conflicts with the decisions of the First, Second, Fourth, and Ninth Circuits regarding whether an alleged transf…
18-1095 Charles G. Kinney v. Frances Rothschild, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied 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 Whether 11 U.S.C. Sec. 524(a)(1) and 11 U.S.C. Sec. 524(a)(2) void court judgments that determine a discharged Chapter 7 no asset' debtor still has pe…
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…
18-920 Margaret Adeline Veltre v. Fifth Third Bank Third Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response Waived antecedent-debt bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-547 bankruptcy-court chapter-7-bankruptcy circuit-split creditor-rights insolvency liquidation-value preferential-transfer property-transfer property-valuation sheriff-sale valuation Whether the Bankruptcy Code mandates a Bankruptcy Court determine the value of property transferred to a creditor within ninety days prior to a Bankru…
18-668 Peggy Berg v. Social Security Administration Seventh Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response Waived absolute-debt bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-553(b) circuit-split creditor-rights debt-setoff fifth-circuit mutual-debt setoff seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation third-circuit Whether Bankruptcy Code Section 553(b) requires that a debt be 'absolutely owed' for a setoff to occur, or whether a setoff can occur at an earlier ti…
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?
18-142 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…