No. 18-1489
Curtland H. Caffey, et al. v. Brenda K. Bowers, Chapter 7 Trustee
Tags: automatic-stay bankruptcy-estate chapter-7 civil-procedure civil-rico good-faith good-faith-defense property-of-estate rico rico-action statutory-interpretation
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Latest Conference:
2019-10-01
Question Presented (from Petition)
1. Whether a state RICO action for injuries to a Chapter 7 debtor that arises five years after the filing of the Chapter 7 petition is property of the bankruptcy estate?
2. Whether a reasonable good faith belief that a cause of action is not property of a bankruptcy estate is a defense for violation of the automatic stay 11 U.S.C. § 362(a).
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether a state RICO action for injuries to a Chapter 7 debtor that arises five years after the filing of the Chapter 7 petition is property of the bankruptcy estate?
Docket Entries
2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-07-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-07-09
Reply of petitioners Curtland H. Caffey, et al. filed.
2019-06-28
Brief of respondent Brenda Bowers, Chapter 7 Trustee in opposition filed.
2019-05-23
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 28, 2019)
Attorneys
Brenda Bowers, Chapter 7 Trustee
Daniel Edgar Shuey — Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, Respondent
Curtland H. Caffey, et al.
Robert Clagett Sanders — Law Office of Robert C. Sanders, Petitioner