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The Ninth Circuit BAP follows a Pennsylvania bankruptcy court decision with facts more similar than those in Ninth Circuit precedent.
The BAP avoided making a rule that would have allowed convicted felons to discharge student loans more easily than debtors with clean records.
Idaho’s Judge Myers rules that an order directing specific performance is not a transfer and cannot be a preference.
Judge Montali accuses FERC of a power grab to take the bankruptcy court’s right to rule on the rejection of executory contracts.
Are utility customers entitled to an official committee because they will fund the reorganization plan? Judge Montali says ‘no.’
BAP joins the majority of courts by saying that defaulting on direct mortgage payments precludes a chapter 13 debtor from receiving a discharge.
If a ‘marijuana’ case dodges a motion to dismiss, objecting to confirmation is too late, the Ninth Circuit says.
If the involuntary corporate debtor was deadlocked and unable to act, the dissenter would have permitted a 50% shareholder to seek damage for dismissal of the petition.
The Ninth Circuit BAP follows Kelley, even though the panel implies that the Supreme Court tortured the language in Section 523(a)(7).
Courts are split on denying a chapter 13 discharge for missing payments made directly to the mortgagee.
