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25A882 Svenhard’s Swedish Bakery v. Bakery and Confectionary Union and Industry International Pension Fund Ninth Circuit 2026-02-05 Application bankruptcy chapter-11 executory-contract financial-accommodation pension-fund settlement-agreement Question not identified. The petition text provided is an "Application to Extend Time for Filing Petition for Writ of Certiorari," not a petition for…
25-6192 Carl N. Merkle v. Johnny W. Thomas, Chapter 7 Trustee Fifth Circuit 2025-11-21 Denied IFP article-iii bankruptcy civil-rights conspiracy organized-crime sanctions Is Merkle's surviving Chapter 11 bankruptcy case (in hidden 5thC 20-50025) now a ripe Article III of the US Constitution bankruptcy case ready to proc…
25-542 Tonya Lee Randleman v. Firelands Habitat for Humanity, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-05 Denied bankruptcy creditor-priority debtor-assets federal-priority-statute government-claims insolvency Under, the "Federal Priority Statute, " also known as 31 U.S.C. § 3713, essentially establishes that when a debtor is insolvent, the United States mus…
25A442 Palanikumar V. Gnanam, et al. v. Nathaniel Chibuzor Keita, et al. Florida 2025-10-20 Application automatic-stay bankruptcy certiorari jurisdiction state-court void-judgment Question not identified.
25-5559 Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County, et al. California 2025-09-05 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP bankruptcy due-process land-patents supremacy-clause treaty-law vexatious-litigant 1. Did the lower court violate Article VI Clause 2 as to the Supremacy Clause of Federal Constitution in relation to Land Patents and treaty laws on…
25-236 In Re Justin Jeffrey Saadein-Morales 2025-08-28 Denied bankruptcy constitutional-violation due-process federal-jurisdiction property-rights supremacy-clause 1. Whether the forcible seizure and alteration of a VA-backed home, while federal bankruptcy and appellate proceedings were pending, violated the Supr…
24A1281 David C. Kwok v. Zhong Qiu Li, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-25 Presumed Complete adversary-proceeding bankruptcy certiorari public-policy statute-of-limitations writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24A1166 Ray Leonerdirt Diaz Santiago v. Jose Ramon Carrion Morales, et al. First Circuit 2025-05-30 Presumed Complete bankruptcy constitutional-violations due-process foreclosure notice-of-hearing property-rights Question not identified.
24-593 William F. Kaetz v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy civil-rights constitutional-rights legal-malpractice separation-of-powers treason Can this Court, consistently with its obligations to uphold and to enforce the Constitution, trade the constitutionally guaranteed rights of millions …
24A373 Red River Talc LLC, as Successor to LTL Management LLC v. Ad Hoc Committee of Supporting Counsel, et al. Third Circuit 2024-10-18 Presumed Complete bankruptcy chapter-11 divisive-merger injunction mass-tort reorganization Question not identified.
24A261 Lilia Belkova v. PNC Bank, N.A. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-13 Presumed Complete bankruptcy foreclosure lien-rights mortgage-dispute pro-se summary-judgment Question not identified.
24A154 Jeffrey Prosser, et al. v. Gretchen Shappert, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-08 Presumed Complete administrative-duties bankruptcy judicial-efficiency official-accountability procedural-compliance statutory-interpretation I. DOES SIEGEL v. FITZGERALD PRECEDENT REQUIRE TIMELY PERFORMANCE OF ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES MEANT TO ENSURE THE INTEGRITY AND EFFECIENCY OF THE BANKRU…
24-5242 Marcus Jarrod Payne v. The Anthony Scott Law Firm, P.L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied IFP bankruptcy censorship constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment After divorcing the Eley (Payne) respondent, Petitioner was minding his own affairs, proceeding through post-divorce bankruptcy when Eley (Payne) resu…
24-98 Norman Abood, et al. v. James P. Carroll, Chapter 7 Trustee Third Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied article-iii-courts article-three bankruptcy bankruptcy-court congress-power constitutional-authority judicial-council jurisdictional-challenge statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution This case questions the Third Circuit's appropriation of Congress' exclusive power to create courts under Article III, § 1 of the United States Consti…
23-1336 Noel West Lane, III v. Matthew Curtis Witt, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure due-process fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion manifest-fraud pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation procedural-error In Summary, should the Supreme Court issue guidance to state courts on unaddressed, mandatory accommodation to judicial discretion to provide fair hea…
23A1092 SC SJ Holdings, LLC, et al. v. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Third Circuit 2024-06-07 Presumed Complete appellate-review bankruptcy contract-interpretation corporate-restructuring time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-1236 Law Office of Rogelio Solis PLLC, et al. v. Catherine Stone Curtis Fifth Circuit 2024-05-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-law debtor-interest erie-doctrine federal-common-law legal-determination property-ownership property-rights state-law Question not identified.
23-1166 VSHPHH Trust v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied Response Waived asset-transfer bankruptcy civil-procedure debtor debtor-obligations nominee nominee-theory third-circuit-ruling third-party-beneficiary trustee-liability trusts Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in concluding that a trustee of a trust established for the benefit of third partie…
23-1086 Megan Marie Teter v. United States Trustee Sixth Circuit 2024-04-05 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-action equal-access-to-justice-act remedial-statute sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation Whether a contested matter initiated by the United States in a bankruptcy case is a "civil action" within the ambit of the Equal Access to Justice Act…
23-7076 Jose R. Villavicencio v. Myron N. Terlecky Sixth Circuit 2024-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-exemption civil-procedure civil-rights drafting-error due-process exemptions iRA-exemption judicial-interpretation land-contract ohio-revised-code standing Is an error in the drafting of a land contract something that the court can ignore even as the validity of that land contract is central to the case. …
23A765 Malcolm H. Sage, Individually and in His Capacity as Partner or Joint Venturer of Sage Associates and Sage Realty v. Irving H. Picard, Trustee for the Liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC Second Circuit 2024-02-21 Presumed Complete bankruptcy certiorari judicial-procedure supreme-court-rules time-extension trustee-powers Whether the Trustee is permitted to use the Net Investment Method for calculating the Defendants' net equity under the SIPA statute, 15 U.S.C. §§ 78aa…
23-824 United States v. David L. Miller Tenth Circuit 2024-01-31 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Relisted (2) appropriations-clause bankruptcy bankruptcy-trustee fraudulent-transfer section-544 sovereign-immunity supremacy-clause tax Whether a bankruptcy trustee may avoid a debtor's tax payment to the United States under Section 544(b) when no actual creditor could have obtained re…
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 If a bankruptcy plan proposes to pay creditors in full with interest, does a creditor who alleges that a bankruptcy court order will delay its receipt…
23-6633 Daryl Anthony Green v. Prince George's County Office of Child Support, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-31 Denied IFP appeal appeal-rights bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-jurisdiction due-process judicial-misconduct jurisdiction property-rights standing Did Mr. Green have the right to appeal the entire case and all previously unheard issues raised in the lower courts once the bankruptcy matter was dis…
23-6569 Leonard Nyamusevya v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process in-rem-action judicial-report property-rights rule-9011 takings Isn't a per se taking when Rule 9011 and Constitutions were violated, when an invalid Supplemental Final Judicial Report was left for the U.S. Supreme…
23-6426 Leonard Nyamusevya v. CitiMortgage, Inc., et al. Ohio 2024-01-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bankruptcy civil-procedure constitutional-violation discharged-debt due-process judicial-report mortgage-foreclosure property-taking public-interest statutory-interpretation takings i) In violation of § 524(a) and § 1326(c) and Rule 9011 and O.R.C. § 2329, whether a Supplemental Final Judicial Report violates the Ohio and U.S. Con…
23-675 Official Committee of Asbestos Claimants v. Bestwall LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied Amici (2) 11-U.S.C-105(a) 28-U.S.C-1334(b) asbestos-liabilities bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction collusion-presumption non-debtor-injunction non-debtors related-to-jurisdiction section-105a section-1334b 1. Whether jurisdiction-conferring transactions between related business entities are subject to a presumption of collusion in violation of 28 U.S.C. …
23-674 Rafael Hernández-Montañez v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico First Circuit 2023-12-21 Denied Amici (1) bankruptcy civil-procedure financial-crisis financial-oversight-and-management-board judicial-jurisdiction municipal-bankruptcy promesa promesa-act puerto-rico puerto-rico-debt territorial-instrumentality territorial-oversight On June 30, 2016, in response to a severe financial crisis that rendered the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico insolvent after the territory declared its in…
23-662 Farm Credit Services of America, FLCA v. William Howard Topp, aka Bill Topp, dba Bill Topp Farm, dba William Topp Farm Eighth Circuit 2023-12-20 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-code chapter-12 interest-rate interest-rates present-value reorganization secured-claims secured-creditor till-formula till-v-scs-credit-corp The Question Presented is whether the formula approach method set forth in Till should also apply in Chapter 12 bankruptcy cases.
23-615 John Felix Castleman, Sr., et ux. v. Dennis Lee Burman, Chapter 7 Trustee Ninth Circuit 2023-12-07 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-conversion chapter-13 chapter-7 circuit-split debtor-rights homestead homestead-exemption property-rights valuation Whether, when a debtor in good faith converts a bankruptcy case to Chapter 7 after confirmation of a Chapter 13 plan, the post-petition, pre-conversio…
23-603 Jeffrey Gray Thomas v. California Department of Justice, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process federal-taxation fraud free-speech judicial-misconduct rooker-feldman state-court-sanctions taxation I. Does Rooker-Feldman cutoff Petitioner's attack on Defendants-Respondents' fraudulent inducement to the state courts to enter fraudulent orders of s…
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 vis-a-vis the debtor in chapter 7 cases where the judge, trustee, and trustee's lawyer are …
23-470 Kimberly Bruce, aka Kimberly A. Bruce, aka Kimberly Antrell Bruce v. Citigroup, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2023-11-03 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-jurisdiction civil-procedure class-action class-certification due-process national-class rule-7023 statutory-injunction 1. Whether a bankruptcy court has jurisdiction under Bankruptcy Rule 7023 to certify a national class of individuals, all of whom were subjected to th…
23A372 Official Committee of Asbestos Claimants v. Bestwall LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-24 Presumed Complete asbestos-claims bankruptcy channeling-injunction chapter-11 personal-injury reorganization 1. This case presents important questions about the scope of federal bankruptcy jurisdiction. In 2017, Georgia-Pacific — a profitable manufacturing be…
23A303 Daryl Anthony Green v. Prince George's County Office of Child Support, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-06 Presumed Complete bankruptcy clearly-erroneous due-process fourteenth-amendment real-estate-fraud writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-5600 Richard D. Bostwick v. Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, et al. Massachusetts 2023-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure discretion due-process judicial-discretion motion-to-vacate standing time-limitation Whether Bostwick's Appeal was NOT Reviewed by the Lower Courts (Appeals Case No. 21-P-721) given Bostwick's Notice of Appeal. The following was Appeal…
23-211 Joseph G. Wortley v. James Juranitch, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response Waived bad-faith bad-faith-filing bankruptcy bankruptcy-petition business-divorce closely-held-business closely-held-company deadlock insider-filing involuntary-bankruptcy involuntary-petition Whether an insider's involuntary bankruptcy petition against his closely-held business for the express purpose of "breaking a deadlock" or to get a "b…
23-5493 Brenda M. Johnson v. Catholic Community Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-31 Denied IFP bankruptcy civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-law housing property-rights retaliation workplace-protection 1. Is Brenda M Johnson an employee under WSDOT for protective activity clause 6 USC1142 ; 6 USC 1131 (5) Bankruptcy chapter 7 11 USC 524: Effect of di…
23-5491 Saundra S. Brooke v. Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2023-08-31 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy bankruptcy-law circuit-court civil-procedure court-procedure due-process evidence evidence-withholding exculpatory-evidence judicial-discretion standing Whether the lower abused her discretion when she withheld evidence in the record from the fourth circuit and disregarded a discharged bankruptcy in th…
23-5341 Regina Nachael Howell Foster v. Areya Holder Aurzada, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction barton-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights due-process removal removal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Does the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals' memorandum opinion directly conflict with an opinion by other Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court…
22-7884 Theresa Marshall v. Educational Credit Management Group, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bankruptcy civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman standing Whether Rooker-Feldman bar prevents federal district court or US court of appeals jurisdiction to hear, rule, and/or remand in a complaint case, conce…
22-1229 Ronnie D. Ward, et al. v. Cross Keys Bank, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied appellate-review article-iii-court bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review state-law-claim subject-matter-jurisdiction supervisory-power I. Should a case removed to bankruptcy court proceed through three levels of federal court without proof of subject matter jurisdiction? The bankruptc…
22-1215 Darren Thomas Delafield v. Gerard R. Vetter, Acting United States Trustee Fourth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied attorney-client-privilege bad-faith bankruptcy bankruptcy-sanctions due-process judicial-discretion non-compensatory-punitive-damages professional-conduct sanctions subpoena In Watts v. Indiana , 338 U.S. 49 (1949), Supreme Court Justice Jackson writes "[A]ny lawyer worth his salt will tell the suspect in no uncertain t…
22-1188 Douglas K. Smith v. Eric Terry Fifth Circuit 2023-06-08 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion appellant-brief appellate-procedure bankruptcy circuit-court civil-procedure dismissal-of-appeal extension-of-time judicial-discretion procedural-dismissal Whether the Circuit Court's March 8, 2023 denial of a second motion for thirty-day extension of time to file appellant brief, and resultant dismissal …
22-1182 Robert Walker, et al. v. U.S. Bank N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied administrative-law bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion judicial-overreach local-rules statutory-interpretation Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Mandate infringe on the Fourteenth Amendment and imposes restrictions as to U.S. Code: Title 11, SUBCHAPTER …
22-1183 Robert Walker, et al. v. K. Drake Ozment, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion judicial-overreach local-court-rules standing statutory-interpretation Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Mandate infringe on the Fourteenth Amendment and imposes restrictions as to U.S. Code: Title 11, SUBCHAPTER …
22-1184 Robert Walker, et al. v. Barry S. Mittelberg, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied 11th-circuit abuse-of-discretion appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-rules civil-procedure due-process judicial-estoppel property-disclosure standing Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals exercised its discretion in err by not "safeguarding not only ongoing proceedings, but potential future proc…
22-7704 Theresa Marshall v. Wells Fargo & Company, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bankruptcy due-process federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman standing state-court-ruling Whether Rooker-Feldman bar prevents federal district court or US court of appeals jurisdiction to hear, rule, and/or remand in a complaint case, conce…
22-1164 Shmuel Erde v. Irsfeld, Irsfeld & Younger, LLP Ninth Circuit 2023-06-01 Denied Response Waived asset-scheduling bankruptcy bankruptcy-code civil-procedure due-process judicial-precedent notice partnership-interests property-of-the-estate standing supreme-court-rule In denying Petitioner's claims, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has divorced itself, jurisprudentially speaking, from the American court system by …
22-1120 Paula Parisi v. Peter C. Anderson, United States Trustee for Region 16 Ninth Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-chapter-11 28-usc-158 bankruptcy bankruptcy-appeal chapter-11-proceeding debtor-in-possession district-court-jurisdiction self-representation sua-sponte sua-sponte-designation united-states-trustee In a case originating under 11 U.S.C. chapter 11, § 1101- 1193, does a U.S. district court sitting in its capacity under 28 U.S.C. § 158 (a) have disc…
22-1079 Truck Insurance Exchange v. Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-05 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Response RequestedRelisted (3) asbestos-claims bankruptcy bankruptcy-code chapter-11 claims-objection fraud-prevention insurance-neutrality insurer-standing party-in-interest Whether an insurer with financial responsibility for a bankruptcy claim is a "party in interest" that may object to a Chapter 11 plan of reorganizatio…
22-7293 Baboucar B. Taal v. John Cronin, Commissioner, et al. First Circuit 2023-04-14 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeal-as-a-right automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights de-novo-review due-process impartial-adjudication judicial-bias recusal I. Whether the First Circuit's refusal to undertake a de novo review with claims that pro se appellant did not develop his case for them to "review" w…
22-7199 William Paul Burch v. Nationstar Mortgage Holdings, Inc. Texas 2023-04-04 Dismissed IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-court community-property federal-court-jurisdiction lien lien-extinguishment standing standing-issue summary-judgment texas-constitution The lien on this property was extinguished under the Texas Constitution because neither the loan nor the Deed of Trust was signed by Petitioner, Willi…
22-926 U.S. Bank National Association v. Windstream Holdings, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied Amici (1) article-iii article-iii-courts bankruptcy bankruptcy-reorganization circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-mootness judicial-doctrine separation-of-powers The lack of statutory and constitutional basis for the equitable mootness doctrine, combined with its demonstrated potential for abuse, require it to …
22-810 Andrea Liebman v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review pro-tunc-order standing willful-violation Did the 11th U.S. Court Of Appeals err when the 3 Judge Panel & 12 Judge En Banc Panel Per Curiam issued the 11-2-21 Opinion Affirming the Bankruptcy …
22-6797 Dominick Galluzzo v. Internal Revenue Service Third Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-misconduct bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure irs iRS-assessment judicial-misconduct proof-of-claim tax-court tax-dispute venue venue-selection Was I mis represented at bankruptcy by my attorney not asking for attachments to PROOF OF CLIAM accoding to rule 3001 and B10 (exhibits H & I) At 20…
22-765 Cyrus Capital Partners, L.P. v. Sears Holdings Corporation Second Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-valuation collateral collateral-standard debtor-retention rash-v-associates replacement-value secured-debt valuation Whether Bankruptcy Code § 506(a) authorizes a court to value collateral retained by the debtor under a standard other than "replacement value" when th…
22-733 Pacific Gas & Electric Company v. Ad Hoc Committee of Holders of Trade Claims Ninth Circuit 2023-02-06 Denied Relisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-practice equitable-considerations federal-rate post-petition-interest solvent-debtor statutory-interpretation 1. Whether a clear statement is required for the Bankruptcy Code to depart from past bankruptcy practice. 2. Whether an uncodified "solvent debtor" e…
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 1. Did the Trustee and Respondents, use the Bankruptcy Court intentionally for misuse of a personal or another purpose?
22-705 George Matthew Culbertson, et ux. v. Wells Fargo USA Holdings, Inc., et al. Louisiana 2023-01-30 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy chapter-7 civil-procedure discharge foreclosure servicemembers-civil-relief-act statute-of-limitations tolling 1. Does 50 U.S.C.A. §3936 apply to toll a state statute of limitations on a state law foreclosure action where (a) a servicemember voluntarily filed a…
22-6529 Warren Havens v. Arnold Leong, et al. Delaware 2023-01-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bankruptcy commerce-clause compact-clause constitutional-law contract-clause corporate-dissolution interstate-commerce standing state-court-jurisdiction The nation is conceived and operated by State-chartered legal entities ("corporations" for short), some for profit and some for charitable purposes. N…
22-6375 Homayoun Maali v. William K. Harrington, United States Trustee First Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-court civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process nationality pro-se pro-se-litigant religion 1- The circuit court of appeal allow the respondent violates the petitioner constitutional rights because of discrimination because of the origin o…
22-502 Spring Valley Produce, Inc., et al. v. Nathan Aaron Forrest, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split civil-procedure debtor-liability discharge fiduciary-capacity fiduciary-duty paca perishable-agricultural-commodities-act statutory-trust May a debtor in bankruptcy discharge liability for unlawfully violating a nonsegregated statutory trust?
22-5901 William Paul Burch v. Areya Holder Aurzada Fifth Circuit 2022-10-25 Dismissed IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-transparency corruption due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-ethics salaried-employees transparency 1. Should a final report of a chapter 7 bankruptcy case be divided into five parts thus depriving the debtor of transparency so as to prevent errors, …
22-367 Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Cooperative de Ahorro y Credito Abraham Rosa, et al. First Circuit 2022-10-19 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge constitutional-claims equitable-treatment fresh-start just-compensation takings-clause unsecured-claims The decision below is the first by a circuit court in history to hold that the Constitution prohibits a category of unsecured claims from being discha…
22-5861 Brent Evan Webster v. Oregon Division of Child Support Ninth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-closure bankruptcy bankruptcy-dismissal child-support civil-procedure civil-rights covid-19-impact due-process standing trafficking trafficking-allegations Did the United States Bankruptcy Court Portland Division error, by dismissing webster's bankruptcy, primarily Judge Peter McKittrick for ignoring webs…
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.
22-5717 Brent Evan Webster v. Alex Trail, et ux. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-claim civil-procedure covid-19-impact due-process false-claim fraud procedural-error qualifying-life-event standing supplemental-judgment takings 1. Did lower courts error for allowing Alex and Connie Trail's claim as Creditor to stand. after their Attorneys filled unreasonable fees of a SUPPLEM…
22-268 City of Chicago, Illinois v. Marcella M. Mance Seventh Circuit 2022-09-21 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-avoidance circuit-split due-process impoundment judicial-lien ordinance-enforcement statutory-lien vehicle-impoundment Whether a lien that arises automatically by operation of an ordinance when a vehicle is impounded is a statutory lien, and not a judicial lien avoidab…
22-214 Allana Baroni v. David Seror, Chapter 7 Trustee, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-property-title chapter-11 chapter-11-conversion chapter-7 conversion debtor-rights estate-property ninth-circuit-interpretation property statutory-interpretation title Because Congress stated in clear language that a confirmed Chapter 11 debtor retains title to property after her plan is confirmed, did the Ninth Circ…
22-5526 William Paul Burch v. Homeward Residential Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii-judge bankruptcy civil-procedure constitutional-procedure due-process federal-court judicial-discretion jurisdiction removal removal-jurisdiction standing state-court "Is it a violation of the United States Constitution for a federal court to accept removal of a case from state court after thirty days or can it be e…
22-188 Patrick J. O'Connell v. Jonna Z. Bianco Kentucky 2022-08-30 Denied 11-usc-362 11-usc-521 11-usc-541 28-usc-1334 28-usc-157 bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction constitutional-rights due-process federal-bankruptcy-code judicial-estoppel state-court-jurisdiction Why is it not mandatory that Kentucky State Courts follow Federal Bankruptcy Laws? Clearly, under the United States Bankruptcy Code, the United State…
22-115 Micheal W. Buckner, as Trustee of the United Mine Workers of America 1992 Benefit Plan, et al. v. United States Pipe & Foundry Co., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-05 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 11-usc-101 bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge claims-definition coal-act equitable-relief individual-employer-plan individual-employer-plans statutory-obligations 1. Whether the equitable right to compel a covered company to maintain an IEP is a dischargeable "claim" under 11 U.S.C. § 101(5)(B). 2. Whether the …
22-18 Cuker Interactive, LLC v. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Ninth Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure case-law choice-of-law circuit-split federal-courts federal-jurisdiction forum-state judicial-interpretation substantive-law Whether a federal court deciding a state-law issue in a bankruptcy case must apply the forum State's choice-of-law rules or federal choice-of-law rule…
21-8026 William F. Kaetz v. Educational Credit Management Corporation, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-law constitutional-vagueness due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment standing statutory-interpretation takings vagueness Is the statute 11 U.S.C. §523(a)(8) void for vagueness therefore unconstitutional?
21-1448 Dustin Jade Wells v. Kathleen A. McCallister Ninth Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) asset-liquidation bankruptcy bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-filing bankruptcy-petition bankruptcy-proceedings debtor-rights homestead-exemption property-interests property-rights This Court has long held that "the date when [a bankruptcy] petition is filed" is the "point of time" at which "the status and rights of the bankrupt …
21-1430 James K. Collins v. Michell R. Zolnier, dba CKC Properties, Top Star Leases Fifth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied actual-fraud bankruptcy bankruptcy-code creditor creditor-rights debt-discharge discharge fraud fraudulent-transfer section-523 The "actual fraud" bar to discharge under Section 523(a)(2)(A) of the Bankruptcy Code applies when transfers made by the debtor were deliberately made…
21-1379 Tim Osicka v. Office of Lawyer Regulation Seventh Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied attorney-disciplinary-proceeding attorney-discipline bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge civil-procedure cost-assessment costs-and-fees government-reimbursement lawyer-regulation nondischargeable-debt pecuniary-loss Did the Court err in determining that an assessment for costs and fees for the Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation (OLR) in an administrative attorn…
21-1321 Yan Sui v. Richard A. Marshack, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-court civil-procedure civil-rights discharge-injunction due-process ninth-circuit property-rights standing summary-affirmance takings Layperson Yan Sui is not legally trained to correctly raise the question for Court to decide. Sui has thought about these questions: (1) whether lower…
21-1277 David Allen O'Neal v. Crawford County, Georgia Georgia 2022-03-23 Denied attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-court civil-procedure county-employee county-liability personal-jurisdiction third-party-release third-party-releases void-judgment 1. Without personal jurisdiction over the attorney, where the judgment against the County paid attorney is really a judgment against the County, isn't…
21-1197 KK-PB Financial, LLC v. 160 Royal Palm, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied article-iii-jurisdiction bankruptcy bankruptcy-appeals constitutional-mootness equitable-mootness federal-jurisdiction judicial-review live-controversy merits-review This case involves a Petitioner who timely and expeditiously sought Article III court review of two bankruptcy court decisions, but never received a r…
21-1177 Philip Jay Fetner v. Kevin R. McCarthy Fourth Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-court bias constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias recusal (1) Was Debtor's (Petitioner's) fundamental right to due process violated by the Bankruptcy Court who admittedly early in this case developed and drov…
21-1154 Speech & Language Center, LLC, et al. v. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey New Jersey 2022-02-22 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-discharge civil-settlement contract contract-enforcement contract-law debt-obligation discharge non-dischargeable-debt settlement-agreement Can parties to a civil settlement agree that the payments required under the agreement are not dischargeable in bankruptcy?
21-1148 SB Building Associates Limited Partnership v. Bunce Atkinson, et al. Third Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response Waived article-i article-i-courts article-iii article-iii-courts bankruptcy bankruptcy-property constitutional-limitations due-process judicial-review property-rights separation-of-powers I. May Congress consistent with Separation of Powers principles deny Article III courts of the power to review an Article I court's decision allowing …
21-1135 Goyko Gustav Kuburovich v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud criminal-procedure due-process false-statements federal-prosecution fraud jury-instructions jury-unanimity statutory-interpretation sua-sponte Where a criminal defendant is prosecuted in federal court for a single count of bankruptcy fraud relying on multiple alleged false statements, each wi…
21-7106 Leonard Nyamusevya v. Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, et al. Ohio 2022-02-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-amendment court-jurisdiction due-process foreclosure justiciable-controversy mortgage-foreclosure ohio-state-law standing "Would the U.S. Constitution not limited to the 5th and the 14th Amendments and Article IV, Section 4(B), of the Ohio Constitution divest the Franklin…
21-1096 Alice Guan v. Ellingsworth Residential Community Association, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-07 Denied appeal-rights appeals bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure court-order due-process final-order judicial-error procedural-rules standing Whether the Courts Erred by Misstating Alice Failed to Properly Amend Her Notice of Appeal when Alice Guan Did Correctly File 3 Notices of Appeals. W…
21-1059 Citibank, N.A., et al. v. Irving H. Picard, Trustee for the Liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 11-usc-550 avoided-transfer bankruptcy bankruptcy-trustee burden-of-proof good-faith statutory-interpretation subsequent-transferee Whether a bankruptcy trustee seeking to recover an avoided transfer from a subsequent transferee under 11 U.S.C. 550 bears the burden of pleading and …
21-6898 Jasper Stevens, et al. v. Robert S. Whitmore Ninth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 11-u.s.c.-521 11-u.s.c.-554 asset-scheduling bankruptcy bankruptcy-abandonment circuit-split debtor-financial-affairs fresh-start statutory-interpretation trustee-administration Whether an asset can be abandoned to a debtor where (1) the asset is not administered prior to the closing of the bankruptcy case; and (2) the asset i…
21-1006 Marc S. Kirschner v. Dennis J. FitzSimons, et al. Second Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-trustee corporate-governance corporate-intent fiduciary-duty fraudulent-transfer imputation leveraged-buyout mens-rea section-548 Under 11 U.S.C. § 548(a)(1)(A), a bankruptcy trustee may avoid a transfer if the debtor "made such transfer . . . with actual intent to hinder, delay,…
21-6830 Huy-Ying Chen v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, et al. Washington 2022-01-13 Denied IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-judgment civil-procedure due-process foreign-judgment fourteenth-amendment legal-standing standing statute-of-limitations supreme-court-review (i) Whether the Supreme Court of Washington's denial of the petition for review is contrary to established precedent. (ii) Whether the inequitable na…
21-908 Kate Marie Bartenwerfer v. Kieran Buckley Ninth Circuit 2021-12-21 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 11-usc-523 bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud circuit-split civil-liability discharge discharge-exception fraud imputation imputation-liability statutory-interpretation May an individual be subject to liability for the fraud of another that is barred from discharge in bankruptcy under 11 U.S.C. (the "Bankruptcy Code")…
21-828 The Estate of Omar Fontana, et al. v. ACFB Administracao Judicial LTDA-ME Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-03 Denied appellate-jurisdiction bankruptcy bankruptcy-finality chapter-15 courts-of-appeals discovery-order discrete-dispute finality ritzen-group-v-jackson-masonry In Ritzen Group, Inc. v. Jackson Masonry, LLC , __ U.S. __, 140 S. Ct. 582 (2020), this Court held that a bankruptcy court order is final and appealab…
21-701 Oakley Grain, Inc., et al. v. M. Randy Rice, Chapter 7 Trustee, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-court circuit-split civil-procedure district-court injunction interpleader standing state-court-lawsuit Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's Order affirming the Bankruptcy Court's ruling that the State Court lawsuit did not …
21-697 Paul C. Clark, Sr., et al. v. Council of Unit Owners of the 100 Harborview Drive Condominium Fourth Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied Response Waived article-iii-court bankruptcy bankruptcy-tribunal civil-rights due-process equitable-mootness judicial-review property-rights standing The first question presented is: whether review of a civil rights discrimination violation holding from an Article I bankruptcy tribunal is precluded …
21-6213 Rosemary I. Mergenthaler v. R. Kenneth Barnard Third Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy bankruptcy-appeal civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process judicial-misconduct justice legal-authority Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (USCA3 hereafter) criminally abuse and/or exceed its legal authority when the Court had w…
21-599 Margaret L. Kinney v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A. Tenth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) bankruptcy bankruptcy-court chapter-13 completion-discharge debtor-rights discharge modification motion-to-dismiss payment plan plan-modification Should certiorari be granted to resolve the conflict among the courts of appeals as to whether a bank-ruptcy court may deny a motion to dismiss and/or…
21-572 John M. Sweeney, et ux. v. Eastman Kodak Company Third Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge civil-procedure civil-rights claims-bar-date due-process jones-v-brock latent-injury products-liability rule-12b6 1. Is a products liability complaint subject to dismissal, pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6), Fed. R. Civ. P., consistent with the fifth amendment's Due Proce…
21-263 Kimbro Stephens Insurance Trust, et al. v. James E. Smith, Jr., et al. Arkansas 2021-08-24 Denied Response Waived attorney-termination bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure client-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment lawyer-discharge legal-malpractice standing 1. Whether a client has a right to discharge a lawyer at any time, whether in Arkansas state court or in Federal Court, with or without cause, subject…
21-233 Mike Finnin Motors, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied bankruptcy civil-procedure direct-takings due-process economic-valuation federal-defense property-rights regulatory-takings supreme-court-precedent takings takings-liability During the liquidity crisis of 2008-09, the United States determined the public interest required Chrysler and General Motors because they were too im…
21-5385 Albert M. Kun v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights due-process excessive-fine fifth-amendment fourth-amendment state-bar timbs-standard timbs-v-indiana 1. Whether the approximately $40,000 fine assessed by the State Bar is an excessive fine under Timbs v. Indiana 586 U.S.—(2019) for a $460-financial v…
21-5344 Edith Woodberry v. City of Detroit, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-court constitutional-obligation due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment just-compensation public-policy takings 1. It is against public policy and the United States Constitution to permit the bankruptcy court to discharge in bankruptcy the City of Detroit's mand…
21-5330 Laura Marie Scott v. Nandan Patel, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-exemption civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-preemption michigan-v-long monroe-v-pape standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tax trustee-liquidation Does enjoining both courts in contradictory reliance on faux removal of a 100% exempt parcel (11 U.S.C.) revested in Petitioner before removal from th…
21-5222 Adrienne Bush v. Kenneth Nathan, Trustee Sixth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP 11-usc-522(d)(11)(E) bankruptcy bankruptcy-exemption chapter-13 chapter-7 civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination lawsuit-proceeds trustee-discretion wrongful-termination Section 522 of the Bankruptcy Code allows debtor exempt certain property. In the Eastern District of Michigan Bankruptcy Court, this debtor was denied…
21-117 Vernon Deck v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment bankruptcy civil-rights due-process foreclosure fraud judicial-discretion property-rights rule-41b standing 1) When a foreign National claims Citizenship on escrow documents, but is not a citizen, is that Mortgage Valid or VOID? 2) Since Escrow Instructions…
21-109 California State Lands Commission v. Eugene Davis, Liquidating Trustee of the Venoco Liquidating Trust, et al. Third Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied 11th-amendment bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction inverse-condemnation liquidating-trust post-confirmation-claim sovereign-immunity state-agency state-lands state-treasury 1. Whether the States' consent to suit in the bankruptcy courts, found to exist in Katz, reaches a suit brought against a State, after the effective d…
21-78 GLM DFW, Inc. v. Windstream Holdings, Inc. Second Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response Waived appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-appeals creditor-priority critical-vendor-payments critical-vendors delegation-of-judicial-function equality equitable-mootness judicial-delegation transparency transparency-principle This case concerns the dismissal of bankruptcy appeals as equitably moot without evaluating the merits of the appeals. Early in the Windstream bankru…
21-5121 Ben Young v. Crescent Management, LLC, et al. Oklahoma 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11-usc-362 attorney-misconduct automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay creditor debt-collection mortgage-concealment mortgage-payment proof-of-claim Whether attorneys who filed and signed Proof of Claim on behalf of creditor violate automatic stay 11 U.S.C. § 362(a)(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6) by concealing …
21-17 David Hargreaves v. Nuverra Environmental Solutions, Inc., aka Heckmann Corporation, aka Rough Rider Escrow, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abstention-doctrine article-three-jurisdiction bankruptcy bankruptcy-law case-jurisdiction equitable-mootness federal-courts judicial-abstention jurisdiction reorganization-plan Several courts of appeals have adopted a new abstention doctrine—called "equitable mootness"—under which Article III courts decline to exercise jurisd…
21-8 Wilma M. Pennington-Thurman v. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights creditor-rights due-process fraud-on-court judicial-ethics preclusion priority-rules standing 1. A finding of fraud on the court is reserved for material, intentional misrepresentations that could not have been discovered earlier. Do instances …
20-1829 Deafueh Monbo v. Eric Blair Fourth Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied bad-faith-filing bankruptcy bankruptcy-code chapter-7-bankruptcy copyright copyright-infringement discharge in-re-green-v-staples trademark trademark-infringement willful-and-malicious 1. Question: Whether the Bankruptcy Court erred when the Bankruptcy Court failed to recognize that Section 523(a)(6) of the Bankruptcy Code prohibits …
20-8419 Bridget Brown Parson v. Select Portfolio Servicing, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-proceeding civil-rights default-judgment document-forgery due-process judicial-misconduct mortgage mortgage-fraud racial-discrimination standing 1. NO RESPONSE BY ANY OF THE APPELLEES IN THIS CASE TO THE LAWSUIT REGARDING THE ALLEGATIONS OF FRAUD, CIVIL AND CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY AND THE FACT THAT…
20-1789 Lorna Y. Channer v. Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Authority Second Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied bankruptcy federal-law governmental-unit jurisdiction state-law statutory-interpretation title-11 Does the term governmental unit under title 11 include any entity created or organized pursuant to state law or only those that fit within the boundar…
20-1719 Allen Bernard Shay v. Alfred H. Siegel Ninth Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment bankruptcy bankruptcy-due-process constitutional-equal-protection due-process economic-fluctuations equal-rights judicial-fraud pro-se pro-se-rights trustee-discretion Does a petitioner in pro se seeking bankruptcy have the same 14th amendment due process protection and equal rights protection guaranteed under the co…
20-8114 Jimmy Christopher Jackson v. North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2021-05-24 Denied IFP bankruptcy breach-of-trust civil-rights due-process estate-administration fiduciary-duty fraudulent-conveyance legal-standing property-rights standing trust-estate bills. bond instruments issues transactions detainers deposited with and manage by the corporation State of N.C. commercial brakers/ agents whom attac…
20-1597 Kathryn MacEwen Conti v. Arrowood Indemnity Company Sixth Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge commercial-lending consumer-protection contract-law debt-classification non-dischargeable-debt promissory-notes student-loans May commercial lenders create non-dischargeable debts by placing language in the promissory notes that identifies the loan as a "student loan," "educa…
20-1554 Citizens Against Corporate Crime, LLC v. Lennar Corporation Third Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-law claim-release false-claims-act government-investigation government-official investigation public-interest qui-tam release This petition for a writ of certiorari raises a matter of exceptional importance — whether or not a false claims act qui tam claim on behalf of the pu…
20-1518 QDOS, Inc. v. Matthew Hayden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-29 Denied appealable-order appellate-panel bankruptcy bankruptcy-appellate-panel bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-proceeding final-order interlocutory-order involuntary-petition judicial-review Whether a Bankruptcy Appellate Panel's order reversing a bankruptcy court's dismissal of an involuntary petition constitutes a final, appealable order…
20-1483 Philip Pilevsky, et al. v. Sutton 58 Associates LLC New York 2021-04-22 Dismissed Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-code federal-law federal-preemption legal-proceedings liability-based-on-bankruptcy misuse-of-bankruptcy preemption state-law state-law-tort-claims tort-claims Whether the federal Bankruptcy Code preempts state-law tort claims that are premised on an alleged misuse of bankruptcy proceedings or that seek to im…
20-1418 Sepideh Cirino v. Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge chapter-7 deed-of-trust foreclosure mortgage mortgage-lien nonjudicial-foreclosure promissory-note 1. How can a mortgagor collect on more than the amount of the lien secured by the deed of trust when a debtor in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy in Californ…
20-1400 Mark Elliott, et al. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied article-three-jurisdiction bankruptcy bankruptcy-plan constitutional-rights due-process equitable-mootness secured-creditors statutory-appeal statutory-jurisdiction takings 1. In a case in which the appellants have a statutory right of appeal and the court of appeals has Article III and statutory jurisdiction, may the cou…
20-7601 Lynn Z. Smith v. New Jersey Bureau of Securities Third Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied IFP additional-documents bankruptcy bankruptcy-claim claim-objection creditor creditor-documents debtor debtor-rights evidence-discovery judicial-procedure rooker-feldman-doctrine The Questions Presented that immediately follow provide the U.S. Supreme Court with an opportunity to zero-in on current abuses in our state and feder…
20-1348 True Harmony, et al. v. United States District Court for the Central District of California Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response Waived automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay civil-rights disqualification due-process federal-constitution federal-judge judicial-bias judicial-disqualification (1) Whether 28 U.S.C. §455 disqualifies a federal court judge for lack of impartiality to a reasonable observer in a federal civil rights and fraud ac…
20-1273 Franek Olstowski v. Petroleum Analyzer Company, L.P. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-15 Denied arbitration arbitration-award bankruptcy federal-court federal-procedure full-faith-and-credit judicial-proceeding state-court state-court-judgment trade-secret 1. Whether state-court judgments confirming arbitration awards, including state-court orders clarifying such judgments, are "judicial proceedings" ent…
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 the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in this matter that a possessory lien on insurance proceeds deposite…
20-7258 Toi Horn v. Federal National Mortgage Association, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied IFP administrative-limitations bankruptcy civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-appeal due-process estate-claims fifth-amendment standing takings trust-property Petitioner request to ask this Court to review whether the infant/minor 's denial of their constitutional appeal be final from the District Court Dis…
20-1142 Atlantic Richfield Company v. Asarco LLC Ninth Circuit 2021-02-22 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived bankruptcy cercla contribution contribution-claim environmental-liability judicial-settlement liability response-action settlement statutory-interpretation Whether a judicially approved settlement that conclusively determines a party's obligation to perform response actions "resolves its liability" for "s…
20-1096 Philip Jay Fetner v. Hotel Street Capital, LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response Waived appeals appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction chapter-11-bankruptcy civil-rights constitutional-appeal constitutional-rights due-process final-order mootness Petitioner asks this Court to review whether he was denied a constitutional appeal on the false preliminary premise that the appellate courts — both t…
20-1075 John Robert Reichard, et ux. v. Russell A. Brown, Chapter 13 Trustee Ninth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure chapter-13-bankruptcy due-process federal-statutory-interpretation local-rules privacy privacy-protection tax-return-confidentiality tax-returns Whether the privacy protections due Chapter 13 bankruptcy debtors' income tax returns pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §521(g)(2), and implemented by the Directo…
20-1028 Timothy L. Blixseth v. Credit Suisse Ninth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-reorganization chapter-11 circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process exculpation-clause non-debtor-release subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a nonconsensual exculpation clause in a bankruptcy reorganization plan purporting to release non-debtor third parties from claims by other non…
20-886 Thelma G. McCoy v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Amici (3) bankruptcy bankruptcy-code brunner-test circuit-split student-loan-debt student-loans totality-of-circumstances totality-test undue-hardship The Bankruptcy Code permits courts to discharge student loan debt in bankruptcy if a debtor can show that repaying it would cause her "undue hardship.…
20-6431 John L. Howell v. David Adler, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied IFP article-iii-powers bankruptcy barton-injunctions civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity non-core-claims qualified-immunity quasi-judicial-immunity To deny a plaintiff's constitutional right to due process and prohibit suit against a particular set of defendants who it wishes to shield from liabil…
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 Petitioner is a secured estate claimant in the Chapter 7 bankruptcy of Donald Grodsky. Pursuant to a Promissory Note and Security Agreement executed b…
20-610 Linda L. Howland v. Michael Kelly, et al. Second Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied bank-fraud bankruptcy civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-to-defraud due-process false-claims financial-crisis fraud mortgage-fraud racketeer-influenced-organizations wire-fraud 1. Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals prematurely dismiss the case without viewing the facts proving violations to Federal Statutes that shows a …
20-519 State Bar of California, et al. v. Lenore L. Albert-Sheridan Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied 11-usc-523(a)(7) attorney-discipline bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split federal-courts kelly-v-robinson public-protection statutory-interpretation Whether payments ordered by the California Supreme Court as a condition of an attorney's discipline, imposed to protect the public, are non-dischargea…
20-505 Shlomit Ruttkamp v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka The Bank of New York Connecticut 2020-10-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment bankruptcy civil-procedure due-process foreclosure property-rights real-property standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether subject matter jurisdiction should be waived when the book of law and the rules of law claim to the contrary. Whether, on the face of the reco…
20-499 Nathaniel Richard Hull v. Jeffrey J. Rockwell First Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied attachment bankruptcy bankruptcy-code circuit-split creditor-rights creditors homestead-exemption property-exemption reinvestment state-law Whether a debtor may keep a state-law homestead exemption inside bankruptcy, notwithstanding that the proceeds would be subject to attachment and exec…
20-6019 Greg P. Givens v. Clyde Yates, Jr., et al. Ohio 2020-10-15 Denied IFP bankruptcy civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech immunity judicial-discretion petition-clause standing I. Does the lower court have the absolute right to wholly suspend and censor the First Amendment Right of the Freedom of Speech to a natural born cit…
20-457 MarketGraphics Research Group, Inc. v. David Peter Berge Sixth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Amici (1) bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split debtor-liability discharge intent-standard objective-certainty statutory-interpretation subjective-intent willful-and-malicious-injury willful-injury The Bankruptcy Code exempts from discharge "any debts * * * for willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another entity or to the property of ano…
20-5886 Lynn Z. Smith v. Andrea Dobin Third Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP additional-documents bankruptcy bankruptcy-claim bankruptcy-judge bankruptcy-trustee creditor-claim creditor-documents debtor-rights evidence-discovery judicial-procedure rooker-feldman-doctrine Question 1: When a Bankruptcy Debtor files a formal objection to the amount of a Creditor's claim and requests that the Creditor provide the Additiona…
20-409 Christopher Michael Marino, et ux. v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC Ninth Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-code circuit-split discharge-violation judicial-review recurring-issue statutory-interpretation Whether, under 11 U.S.C. 105(a), debtors may recover attorney's fees incurred on appeal to remedy a discharge violation.
20-5602 Robyn Jill Farrington v. U.S. Bank Trust N.A., as Trustee for LSF9 Master Participation Trust, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-court equitable-powers fraud mortgage-foreclosure proof-of-claim res-judicata Rooker-Feldman-doctrine Whether claims of fraud in a mortgage foreclosure action are barred by the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and res judicata. Whether the dismissal of a chall…
20-175 Jinil Steel Company, Limited v. ValuePart, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response Waived appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure forfeiture judicial-discretion legal-forfeiture oral-argument pleadings preservation-of-error procedural-preservation Does a litigant forfeit an argument by raising it thoroughly in an oral proceeding in bankruptcy court or other court of first instance, but not in a …
20-5260 In Re Kenton G. Findlay 2020-08-05 Denied IFP 11-usc-362 14th-amendment 5th-amendment bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay constitutional-violation court-jurisdiction due-process foreclosure property-seizure Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida ("the Third DCA") violated the due process protection of the 5th a…
19-1456 KK-PB Financial, LLC v. 160 Royal Palm, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied asset-sale bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-court-discretion bid-procedures debtor-asset debtor-estate debtor's-estate discretionary-power higher-better-offer higher-bid maximize-value-estate private-sale public-bid-procedures sale-maximization Does a bankruptcy court abuse its discretion when it cancels public bid procedures and approves the private sale of a debtor's principal asset, even t…
19-8826 Andrea Genrette v. Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company Third Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay lower-court manifest-error petition-for-rehearing third-circuit (i) Was it manifest error for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm the lower court's denial of Petitioner's Petition for Rehearing, which in e…
19-1354 Tan Phan v. Minh Van Truong, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied Relisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-liquidation chapter-7-bankruptcy creditor-claims homestead homestead-exemption lien property-liens secured-debt state-constitution state-constitution-vs-statute state-constitutional-law state-statute unsecured-creditor unsecured-debt Does Chapter 7 bankruptcy require the nonexempt debt to be secured as a lien in order to liquidate debtors' homestead? And if state statute conflicts …
19-8517 Edward F. Novotny, III v. Plexus Corporation, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy civil-procedure claim-litigation debtor-disclosure disclosure estoppel intent intent-standard judicial-estoppel judicial-presumption third-party Courts of appeals are divided on the question presented in this case and left open in New Hampshire v. Maine; whether a debtor who has inadvertently f…
19-8374 In Re Sha'Ron A. Sims 2020-04-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-law chapter-13 civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process jury-trial property-rights QUESTION: DO DEBTORS IN THIS NATION HAVE A RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL, WITHIN THE CHAPTER 13 CONTEXT, WHEN DISPUTING ISSUES WITH RESPECT TO A CLAIM ON A PRIM…
19-8241 Joseph Llewellyn Worrell v. Emigrant Mortgage Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-10 Denied IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay civil-rights due-process foreclosure foreclosure-proceedings mortgage-security preemption servicemembers-civil-relief-act summary-judgment Whether a mortgage security instrument created six days before the underlying promissory note is sufficiently executed provides sufficient standing to…
19-7938 In Re Aretha Townsend 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act bankruptcy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-review government-officials judicial-error jurisdictional-challenge procedural-dismissal standing writ-of-certiorari 1. Whether District Judge May erred when Dismissing [Petitioners '] "Complaint " as frivolous, in "this " matter? Furthermore, whether [the "Judge" ] …
19-1088 Gerson Irving Fox v. Elissa Miller, Chapter 7 Trustee Ninth Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied admissible-evidence bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-727(a)(3) civil-procedure competent-evidence debtor-discharge discharge evidentiary-standard judicial-discretion recordkeeping recordkeeping-requirements summary-judgment Upon proof of failure to keep adequate books and records, a debtor's discharge may be withheld under section 727(a)(3) of the Bankruptcy Code unless t…
19-1063 Joy Denby-Peterson v. NU2U Auto World, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) 11-usc-362 11-usc-362(a) 11-usc-362a automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-stay creditor creditor-rights debtor debtor-trustee property-possession property-rights turnover Whether a creditor who maintains possession of property in which a bankruptcy estate has an interest violates the Bankruptcy Code's automatic stay pro…
19-7421 Lawyer J. Henderson v. Kevin Franklin, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP abandoned-claim bankruptcy bankruptcy-petition chapter-7-trustee civil-rights claim-abandonment disclosure due-process inadvertent-disclosure intent-standard judicial-estoppel presumption-of-deceit pro-se-litigant standing Courts of appeals are divided on the question presented in this case and left open in New Hampshire V. Maine; whether a debtor who has inadvertently f…
19-931 Jay Lawrence Friedheim v. Dane Field Ninth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied admiralty-law attorney-fees bankruptcy civil-procedure jones-act maintenance-and-cure maritime-law seaman-contract 1. Whether a seaman's wage contract that includes maintenance and cure entitles the prevailing party to attorney's fees under Alyeska Pipeline Serv. C…
19-7323 Leo Stoller v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy chapter-13 civil-procedure criminal-law due-process false-statement fifth-amendment perjury seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals unconstitutionally affirmed the district court's denial of the petitioner's request for relief from the l…
19-759 Milo H. Segner, Jr. v. Cianna Resources Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied avoidance-power bankruptcy bankruptcy-code burden-of-proof criminal-statute good-faith jury-instructions ponzi-scheme reasonable-commercial-standards transfer-liability This petition presents two important questions concerning the pursuit of Ponzi-scheme proceeds in bankruptcy proceedings—including one that has provok…
19-490 Jonathan S. Metcalf v. Michael Fitzgerald, et al. Connecticut 2019-10-15 Denied adversary-proceeding adversary-proceedings bankruptcy bankruptcy-code civil-procedure federalism judicial-interpretation legal-claims preemption standing state-law state-law-claims vexatious-litigation Does the Bankruptcy Code preempt state-law vexatious-litigation claims arising from adversary actions in bankruptcy proceedings?
19-6098 Pablo Enrique Rosado-Sanchez v. Puerto Rico Department of Education, et al. First Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied IFP appeal-rights appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-misconduct promesa-act standing supreme-court-review 1. On a letter dated September 18, 2019, the Clerk of the Court for the First Circuit, certified the Appeal 17-2105 status, and I quote: " In sum, you…
19-6105 Avram Moshe Perry v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP abstention amendment-of-pleadings bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-discrimination due-process equitable-powers federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion pro-se-plaintiff procedural-due-process standing Whether Congress had provided that in an American civilized federal court system a judge can use an unlimited discretion to outrageously discriminate …
19-357 City of Chicago, Illinois v. Robbin L. Fulton, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-09-18 Judgment Issued Amici (11) 11-usc-362 affirmative-obligation automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure debtor-trustee property-retention property-rights Whether an entity that is passively retaining possession of property in which a bankruptcy estate has an interest has an affirmative obligation under …
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…
19-5816 Gabriel A. Maalouf v. Praetorian Insurance Company Nevada 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bad-faith bankruptcy bankruptcy-impact contract contract-breach insurance-coverage insurance-guarantee-association negligence negligence-claim uninsured-motorist 1. Should financial liability have reverted back to the motorist's uninsured/underinsured motorist policy Praetorian Insurance Company, after the Tort…
19-293 TKC Aerospace Inc. v. Charles Taylor Muhs Fourth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actual-intent bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split intent-requirement malicious-injury objective-certainty objective-standard substantial-certainty willful-and-malicious-injury willful-injury Under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(6), a debt may not be discharged in bankruptcy if it arises from a "willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another." I…
19-277 HSBC Holdings PLC, et al. v. Irving H. Picard, et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied CVSGAmici (6)Relisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-550 extraterritoriality foreign-transaction foreign-transactions initial-transferee initial-transferees international-comity subsequent-transferee subsequent-transferees trustee-recovery 11 U.ௗS.ௗC. §ௗ550(a) authorizes a bankruptcy trustee to recover the proceeds of voided prepetition debtor transactions from two distinct classes of tr…
19-209 Thomas W. McDonald, Jr., Chapter 13 Trustee v. Paul E. Wenzloff, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-law-standing-chapter-13-chapter-7-fraud case-conversion chapter-13 chapter-7 fraud legal-precedent malfeasance standing trustee-standing Did this Court's ruling in Harris v. Viegelahn, 575 U.S. (2015) overrule 134 years of legal precedent established in Barton v. Barber, 104 U.S. 126 (1…
19-194 Daniel Delacruz, Sr. v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine racial-discrimination rooker-feldman-doctrine Does a dismissal of claims based on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and First Amendment rights under the Noerr-Pennington doctrine violate the equal prote…
19-5277 Robert M. Kowalski v. Executive Committee of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied IFP administrative-action bankruptcy constitutional-safeguards contempt-proceeding criminal-contempt due-process ex-parte judicial-review u.s-trustee us-trustee Whether the Order of the Executive Committee for the Northern District of Illinois declaring that an attorney is "loud and disruptive" and ordering hi…
19-5109 Wayne English v. Roadhouse Holding Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-bankruptcy-procedure first-amendment-rights mail-delivery notice notice-of-appeal usps Thousands of individuals, both debtors and creditors, are having their due process rights violated by the Delaware Bankruptcy Court. The Court, withou…
18-9221 Barrington M. Hamilton, aka Jaame Amun Re El v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-law civil-procedure civil-rights creditor-claims debt-discharge due-process government-administration government-liability legal-procedure property-rights statutory-interpretation operation? Ans. No. The languagefound in Title 11 UScs$5a caxa) says "(a) A discharge in a case under this title [11 uscss 1o1 et seq.I (a) operates a…
18-9201 Galen Lemar Amerson, et al. v. United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado Tenth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-rule civil-procedure conceivable-effect de-novo-review due-process jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction testate-estate wills-and-trusts withdrawal-of-reference This is the second time the court has seen this case. The issue to be considered is subject matter jurisdiction, and did it ever exist in this long ru…
18-1389 Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Andalusian Global Designated Activity Company, et al. First Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy civil-rights commercial-law constitutional-violations debtor-name due-process law-enforcement-misconduct official-immunity perfection property-rights public-record registered-organization secured-lending secured-transactions uniform-commercial-code Whether public officials can maintain immunity des Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code ("UCC"), which has been adopted nationwide, states that a security interest is perfected by filing a financin…
18-1345 Charles G. Kinney v. Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud civil-rights creditor-liability creditors discharged-debtor due-process federal-officers first-amendment fraud judges-and-justices judicial-crimes judicial-misconduct jurisdictional-challenge statutory-violation This is about crimes due to ongoing bankruptcy fraud, and judicial accessories-after-the-fact. Crimes are being committed not only by listed creditors…
18-1351 Charles G. Kinney v. Michele Renee Clark Ninth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud bankruptcy-law civil-rights creditor-misconduct criminal-concealment discharge-injunction due-process enforcement-duty first-amendment fraud judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct statutory-violation The counter-claim was because of the crimes (e.g. fraud) and judicial accessories-after-the-fact. Crimes are being committed not only by listed credit…
18-1349 Charles G. Kinney v. Michele Renee Clark Ninth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-524 attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-crimes bankruptcy-fraud bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights creditor-misconduct criminal-concealment criminal-law discharge-injunction discharge-violation discharged-debtor due-process fraud judicial-misconduct statutory-interpretation The motion to re-open was because of crimes (e.g. fraud) and judicial accessories-after-the-fact. Crimes are being committed not only by listed credit…
18-1347 Charles G. Kinney v. Michele Renee Clark Ninth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud bankruptcy-law civil-rights creditor-misconduct criminal-concealment criminal-law discharge-injunction discharge-violation due-process federal-enforcement fraud judicial-misconduct statutory-immunity The removal was because of crimes (e.g. fraud) and judicial accessories-after-the-fact. Crimes are being committed not only by listed creditors, a con…
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 thats not what Petitioner appealed. Whether or not the United States Truste…
18-1339 Mark Anthony Fornesa, et al. v. Fifth Third Mortgage Company Fifth Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response Waived ' 'appeals' ' 'bankruptcy-law" ' 'civil-rights" ' 'constitutional-law" ' 'foreclosure" ' 'fraud" automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay constitutional-rights constitutional-validity constitutional-violation damages debtor-rights eviction foreclosure foreclosure-fraud fraud-allegation mortgage-dispute mortgage-law property-seizure Under Federal law, 11 U.S.C. § 362(a), do Fifth Third Mortgage company and Fifth Third Bank ("Fifth Third") have a right to seize a property from debt…
18-1337 Robert Rael, et ux. v. Patrick S. Layng, United States Trustee, Region 19 Tenth Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-727 bankruptcy bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-court-jurisdiction chapter-11 chapter-11-plan chapter-eleven-plan civil-procedure court-order debtor post-confirmation property-of-estate property-of-the-estate subject-matter-jurisdiction willful-disobedience This case presents a conflict as to the subject matter jurisdiction of bankruptcy courts. It also presents conflicts as to whether an order entered by…
18-8887 Miriam Soler v. Capital One Auto Finance Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied IFP appeal appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-interpretation courts-of-appeal due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause federal-rules-of-bankruptcy-procedure original-jurisdiction rule-of-law Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals infringed the ex post facto clause, depriving Petitioner's right of remedy sustaining no due process at …
18-1281 Hayes B. Milliman v. Timothy L. Randall California 2019-04-08 Denied Relisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-law congressional-intent constitutional-interpretation diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-question markham-v-allen probate-exception state-probate-court trust trusts wills What is the scope of the probate exception to federal jurisdiction? Did Congress intend the probate exception to apply where a federal court is not a…
18-8545 Debra Ann Lohri v. Specialized Loan Servicing, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure bankruptcy civil-procedure due-process filing-deadline government-agencies mailbox-rule notice-timeliness procedural-technicality statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
18-1229 In Re Carolyn Fjord, et al. 2019-03-21 Denied Response Waived 7th-amendment antitrust antitrust-law bankruptcy bankruptcy-court beacon-theaters civil-procedure civil-rights clayton-act due-process jury-trial mandamus seventh-amendment • Does the decision of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York denying Petitioners the right to a jury trial for dama…
18-1138 Charles Kinney v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2019-03-04 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process first-amendment judicial-bias judicial-discretion retaliation standing vexatious-litigant Cal. vexatious litigant law is unconstitutionally vague on its face. The language is unclear as to: (a) what is "litigation"; (b) what has or doesn't …
18-1130 David W. Charron v. Glenn S. Morris, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-523 bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-procedure contempt contempt-sanctions debt-discharge discharge discharge-of-debts due-process intent non-dischargeable non-dischargeable-debt non-dischargeable-debts statutory-interpretation Whether contempt sanctions are per se non-dischargeable debts under 11 U.S.C. 523(a)(6)?
18-8170 In Re William Edward Cloninger 2019-02-27 Denied IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-appeal civil-rights congress-legislation constitutional-claims due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection legal-reform prison-litigation pro-se-litigant procedural-dismissal statute-of-limitations Did ThE E/EVENTh CIRCIRt COURt OF AppEAl, CASE NOMbER: 18. 1O9O5 ViOlAtE ThE PEtitiONER's CONstituFiONAl Right UndER AMEndrEt 5. 14. OF ThE UnitEd-StA…
18-1095 Charles G. Kinney v. Frances Rothschild, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-code-discharge-injunction bankruptcy-discharge bosse bosse-v-oklahoma constitutional-rights court-judgment creditor-rights discharged-debtor judicial-procedure personal-liability rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine unsecured-creditor It is rare for a federal statute to say it "voids" a court judgment, but that is exactly what 11 U.S.C. Sec. 524(a)(1) does. If that decision determin…
18-957 NextEra Energy, Inc. v. Elliott Associates, L.P., et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Amici (1) 11-usc-363 11-usc-503 bankruptcy bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-sale breakup-fee business-judgment-rule circuit-split debtor section-363 section-503 Whether a debtor's decision to agree to a negotiated breakup fee as part of a sale transaction should be reviewed by the bankruptcy court under the de…
18-941 Carl B. Davis, Chapter 13 Trustee v. Tyson Prepared Foods, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-estate circuit-split courts-of-appeals creditor creditor-rights passive-conduct property-interest property-interests property-of-the-estate statutory-interpretation By operation of law, when a debtor files a bankruptcy petition, a bankruptcy "estate" is created consisting of all of the debtor's property "wherever …
18-938 Ritzen Group, Inc. v. Jackson Masonry, LLC Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (3) 28-usc-158 appellate-jurisdiction automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay circuit-split civil-procedure final-order precedent statutory-interpretation Whether an order denying a motion for relief from the automatic stay is a final order under 28 U.S.C. § 158(a)(1). In diverting from this Court's prio…
18-909 Valarie Davis v. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles U.S., LLC Sixth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied bad-faith bankruptcy bankruptcy-disclosure civil-claim civil-procedure civil-rights disclosure judicial-estoppel legal-doctrine procedural-bar standing takings Whether a plaintiff who fails to disclose her civil claim in bankruptcy is barred, under the doctrine of judicial estoppel, from pursuing her claim —e…
18-905 Mastrogiovanni Schorsch & Mersky, P.C., et al. v. Edward Mandel Fifth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied bankruptcy comity comity-federalism due-process federalism receivership state-court-jurisdiction state-property-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction The Fifth Circuit has ignored long standing rules of comity mandated by Federalism by invading the exclusive subject matter jurisdiction of a Texas st…
18-7250 Diane S. Jones v. Samson Resources Corporation, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-proceedings civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment indigenous-landowner indigenous-rights property-rights standing takings Whether Petitioner, an indigenous landowner and a United States citizen has standing to challenge whether Respondents, Samson Resources Corporations' …
18-845 Scott M. Seidel v. Century Surety Company Fifth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied bankruptcy constitutional-principles crime due-process federal-declaratory-judgment imputation insurance-coverage judicial-review state-court-judgment tort-facts Jane Doe, at 18 and recently her high school's valedictorian, was raped in a lonely motel room after she passed out from drinking alcohol at Pastzaios…
18-668 Peggy Berg v. Social Security Administration Seventh Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response Waived absolute-debt bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-553(b) circuit-split creditor-rights debt-setoff fifth-circuit mutual-debt setoff seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation third-circuit Under Bankruptcy Code Section 553(b), regarding when "a creditor offsets a mutual debt owing" and "the date of such setoff," does this require that th…
18-6489 Guetatchew Fikrou v. Montgomery County Office of Child Support Enforcement Division, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy bankruptcy-code child-support civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute standing state-law supplemental-jurisdiction Whether the United States Supreme Court can review the abuse of discretions standard applied? Whether this Court would still review de novo the vast m…
18-516 Charles G. Kinney v. Philip Gutierrez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process federal-procedure free-speech judicial-discretion professional-speech retaliation section-1983 vexatious-litigant By simultaneously dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, did this 3 Judge panel abuse its discretion to cover-up acts by Justice Gutierrez and othe…
18-508 Charles G. Kinney v. Tyson Takeuchi, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process false-statements federal-procedure free-speech judicial-discretion professional-speech By simultaneously dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, did this 3 Judge panel abuse its discretion by violating Janus and NIFLA to cover-up acts …
18-515 Charles G. Kinney v. Michele R. Clark, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process federal-procedure free-speech judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct professional-speech By simultaneously dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, did this 3 Judge panel abuse its discretion by violating Janus and NIFLA to cover-up acts …
18-510 Charles G. Kinney v. Michele R. Clark, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process federal-law free-speech hobbs-act judicial-discretion professional-speech state-court-proceedings vexatious-litigant By simultaneously dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, did this 3 Judge panel abuse its discretion to cover-up acts by Justice Gutierrez, debtor …
18-381 Donald C. Marro v. New York State Teachers' Retirement System Sixth Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-settlement class-action class-representation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fees fees-and-expenses frcp-23 notice property-rights public-policy settlement-fairness Amendments V and XIV provide equal access to courts, equal protection of law and sanctity of property, including bankruptcy distributions, for all lit…
18-331 Rafael Pabon Ortega v. Isabel Llompart Zeno, et al. First Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-law ex-parte-young first-amendment insular-cases promesa puerto-rico section-1983 Whether the automatic stay provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. §§ 362, 922, as incorporated into PROMESA are unconstitutional as applied by t…
18-299 Ross Harry Briggs v. Charles E. Rendlen, III, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri Eighth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response Waived article-iii bankruptcy bankruptcy-court civil-procedure claims-allowance creditor-debtor creditor-debtor-relations due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction separation-of-powers Whether a federal claim pending before an Article I bankruptcy judge and intertwined with the bankruptcy but resolvable outside the claims allowance p…
18-271 Zachary N. Trost, et ux. v. Sherry Trost Sixth Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied Relisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge burden-of-proof discharge intent intent-standard kawaauhau-v-geiger non-dischargeable-debt restatement-of-torts wrongful-act wrongful-conduct I. For a debt arising out of unlawful conduct to be considered non-dischargeable in bankruptcy pursuant to Kawaauhau v. Geiger, 523 U.S. 57 (1998), wh…
18-5765 DeAndre Russell v. Redstone Federal Credit Union, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-rights bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation disqualification due-process judicial-bias pro-se res-judicata ON JANUARY 10, 2018 THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT DENIED PETITIONER'S REQUEST FOR EN BANC REHEARING STATING THAT; THE JUSTICES DI…
18-244 Charles E. Woide, et ux. v. Federal National Mortgage Association Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-code-interpretation bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split consumer-protection consumer-rights consummation contractual-obligation creditor-defenses creditor-rights declaratory-relief notice-of-rescission regulation-z rescission rescission-notice statutory-interpretation truth-in-lending-act This Court often has emphasized the importance of statutory interpretation. But a significant split has developed among the Circuits as to whether and…
18-208 New Products Corporation, et al. v. Dickinson Wright, PLLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure costs-of-compliance court-order court-sanctions discovery federal-rules-civil-procedure non-party-costs non-party-subpoena rule-45 sanctions subpoena subpoena-compliance (1) Whether, as the Sixth Circuit held, Rule 45(d)(2)(B)(ii) entitles a non-party to recover all "significant fees" it incurs (including attorney fees…
18-5610 Ram Saxena v. Nabilsi Yunes Abud Ninth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied IFP bankruptcy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings Question not identified.
18-142 Allana Baroni v. The Bank of New York Mellon, fka The Bank of New York Ninth Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-501 bankruptcy bankruptcy-creditor bankruptcy-procedure blank-indorsement chapter-11 creditor creditor-rights deed-of-trust federal-rules-bankruptcy-procedure federal-rules-of-bankruptcy-procedure promissory-note standing When a party to a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case contends it can enforce the terms of promissory note and deed of trust, can it prove it is a "creditor" e…
18-141 Allana Baroni v. CIT Bank N.A., fka OneWest Bank FSB, fka OneWest Bank NA Ninth Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-501 bankruptcy bankruptcy-creditor bankruptcy-procedure blank-indorsement burden-of-proof chapter-11 creditor creditor-rights deed-of-trust federal-rules-bankruptcy-procedure federal-rules-of-bankruptcy-procedure promissory-note standing When a party to a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case contends it can enforce the terms of promissory note and deed of trust, can it prove it is a "creditor" e…
18-5372 James J. Bagwell v. Southern National Assets, LLC Georgia 2018-07-26 Denied IFP banking-rules bankruptcy civil-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure lien-priority misappropriation-of-funds tax-sale Whether the decisions of the lower courts erred by denying the pro se Petitioner his U.S. constitutional rights of equal protection and due process of…
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…
18-27 Estate of Juanita Jackson, et al. v. Rubin Schron Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied all-writs-act bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction consent injunctive-relief judicial-authority jurisdiction non-core-proceedings permanent-injunction state-law-claims Can bankruptcy courts use the All Writs Act to expand their jurisdiction and authority beyond the confines of the Bankruptcy Code? And if so, can they…
18-25 Edward Mandel v. Steven Thrasher, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court-decision damages damages-calculation damages-review judicial-review legal-standard reasonable-royalty remand standard-of-review trade-secret After a full trial, the bankruptcy court rejected as unreliable the evidence purporting to assert a "lost asset" model of damages in a trade-secret mi…