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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A711 Dale Sundby, as Trustee v. Marquee Funding Group, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-17 Application appellate-procedure intervention post-judgment pro-se property-refinancing trustee Whether a pro se trustee's post-judgment intervention and appeal challenging property refinancing claims can overcome procedural barriers and district…
23-7009 Warren Simpson v. Alan Simpson Arizona 2024-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection legal-counsel liberty pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation trustee Should every US citizen be provided counsel if they cannot afford it?
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 …
23-534 Peter Otoh v. U.S. Bank Trust National Association, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction navarro-rule real-party-in-interest removal removal-jurisdiction securitized-trust traditional-trust trustee trustee-citizenship Whether the Eleventh Circuit was required to apply Navarro's rule to the Respondent
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?
22-6693 William A. Rankin v. Brian Lavan and Associates, P.C., et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bankruptcy civil-procedure court-misuse due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure misuse respondent standing trustee Did the Trustee and Respondents use the Bankruptcy Court intentionally for misuse of a personal or another purpose?
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…
22-346 Robert Anderson, as Chapter 7 Trustee for Infinity Business Group, Inc. v. Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-10-13 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 11-usc-544 bankruptcy bankruptcy-trustee circuit-split creditor-recovery creditors in-pari-delicto section-544a state-law state-law-preemption trustee Whether a bankruptcy trustee seeking recovery on behalf of creditors under 11 U.S.C. 544(a) is subject to the debtor's knowledge
20-1251 Claud Anderson v. Harbor Bank of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied bankruptcy civil-procedure commingling deposit-account insurance-proceeds possessory-lien trustee trustee-control Whether a possessory lien on insurance proceeds deposited into a bank account survives notwithstanding deposit and commingling of the proceeds with ot…
20-6780 Guillermina Aguilar v. Specialized Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. California 2021-01-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure foreclosure legal-standing loan-servicing mortgage mortgage-ownership note payment-collection reconveyance-certificate standing trustee trustee-status Whether Wells Fargo Bank N.A. has standing to litigate this case when the note was allegedly owned by Specialized Loan Servicing, LLC
20-856 Gary Pisner v. Robert M. McCarthy Maryland 2020-12-29 Denied asset-transfer beneficiary-rights civil-rights contempt court-appointed-trustee due-process ex-parte-contact procedural-due-process standing trust trust-governance trustee Whether the petitioner was denied procedural due process
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?
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…
19-1024 Wayne A. Powe, et ux. v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Residential Asset Securitization Trust Series 2004-A7 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates 2004-G Fifth Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied deed-of-trust financial-institutions-reform-recovery-and-enforce FIRREA firrea-receivership foreclosure foreclosure-standing indymac-bank mortgage-pass-through note-assignment receivership residential-asset-securitization standing trust trustee trustee-appointment Whether Respondent Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Residential Asset Securitization Trust Series 2004-A7 Mortgage Pass-Through Ce…
19-483 Elsie Marino v. Jeffrey Nadel, dba Law Offices of Jeffrey Nadel, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-11 Denied creditor debt-assignment debt-collection fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act foreclosure foreclosure-action postjudgment-remedy standing statutory-interpretation trustee trustee-status Whether a trustee that receives assignment or transfer of a debt, as trustee for beneficial interest holders solely to bring a foreclosure action, can…
19-340 Carey D. Ebert v. John Paul DeJoria, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Response Waived aiding-and-abetting article-iii article-iii-standing bankruptcy bankruptcy-trustee breach-of-fiduciary-duty corporate-debt debtor-corporation fiduciary-duty judicial-proceedings standing trustee unpaid-debt Whether a bankruptcy trustee who proved at trial, without objection, that defendants' tortious conduct (breach of fiduciary duty and aiding and abetti…
19-219 Joan Demarest v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A., as Trustee for the Registered Holders of Nomura Home Equity Loan, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response Waived citizenship citizenship-determination court-jurisdiction diversity diversity-jurisdiction federal-court federal-removal mortgage-investment-trust real-estate-investment-trust real-estate-trust removal trustee When a mortgage investment trust removes a case from federal court based on diversity, is its citizenship determined by the citizenship of each of its…
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
18-1067 Ambac Assurance Corporation v. U.S. Bank National Association Minnesota 2019-02-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-limits due-process forum-state in-rem-jurisdiction minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction trust trust-law trustee trustee-presence Whether a court may exercise in rem jurisdiction over a trust where the trust's primary assets are located outside the forum state
18-92 David V. Perry v. Bruce Kriegman Ninth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Relisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-law clawback-provisions constitutional-rights due-process fraudulent-transfer fundamental-human-rights ponzi-scheme presumption trustee vague-laws What is a Ponzi Scheme and are the vague laws and interpretations surrounding its definition and the subsequent enforcement of the Ponzi Scheme Presum…