trustee-misconduct

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24A189 Sherry Ann McGann v. Jeanne Y. Jagow, Chapter 7 Trustee United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the 1 2024-08-21 Presumed Complete ada-violations bankruptcy-rights due-process fifth-amendment property-deprivation trustee-misconduct Whether the Fifth Amendment's due process protections require meaningful judicial review of trustee actions in bankruptcy proceedings that potentially…
20-6429 John L. Howell v. Gordon, Arata, McCollam, Duplantis & Eagan, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud chapter-7-proceeding embezzlement estate-administration fiduciary-duty fraud injunction sanctions secured-creditor trustee-misconduct May the lower court endorse a trustee's scheme to defraud secured estate creditors?
20-6430 John L. Howell v. Gordon, Arata, McCollam, Duplantis & Eagan, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied IFP bankruptcy-fraud breach-of-fiduciary-duty chapter-7-bankruptcy embezzlement estate-administration falsification-of-evidence fiduciary-duty fraud-upon-the-court secured-creditor trustee-duties trustee-misconduct May the lower court endorse a trustee's scheme to defraud secured estate creditors
19-440 Northern Trust Corporation, et al. v. Lindie L. Banks, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split class-action covered-securities federal-securities-law fiduciary-duty preemption private-securities-litigation-reform-act securities-fraud securities-litigation securities-litigation-uniform-standards-act statutory-interpretation trust-assets trust-law trustee-misconduct uniform-standards-act Does a trust beneficiary's allegations that a trustee used trust assets to buy and sell the trustee's own proprietary securities for the trustee's own…