Courts are split on whether chapter 7 trustees can be paid on another theory when the trustee had made no distributions to creditors under Section 326(a).
The ‘probate exception’ to federal subject matter jurisdiction does not prevent bankruptcy courts from basing decisions on state trusts and estates law, except in limited circumstances.
The existence of a competing bidder does not put the buyer on notice of an ‘adverse interest’ to avoid dismissal for mootness under Section 363(m), the Sixth Circuit BAP says.
A district judge in Ohio declined to sit as an appellate court by deciding whether a bankruptcy court in another state had properly ‘spread’ the automatic stay.
A magistrate judge decided that a bankruptcy court’s order from another district halting suits against nondebtors was unenforceable because it was not an ‘injunction’ made under Section 105(a).
