United States Tenth Circuit

In a bankruptcy case, creditor-bank's appeal is dismissed as moot where: 1) debtors' conversion of their case from Chapter 13 to Chapter 7 mooted the appeal; and 2) despite the alleged existence of many cases pending in the Kansas bankruptcy court involving the negative-equity issue of 11 U.S.C. section 1325(a) that was present in this case, this appeal did not fall into any exception to the mootness doctrine.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/15/2008
• Published 12/16/2008

Judges

• HOLMES, Circuit Judge., Before McCONNELL, SEYMOUR, and HOLMES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David G. Epstein, Haynes & Boone, LLP, Dallas, TX, (Jill D. Olsen and Michael P. Gaughan, South & Associates, P.C., Overland Park, KS, with him on the briefs) for Appellant., Thomas J. Lasater and Lyndon W. Vix, Fleeson, Gooing, Coulson & Kitch, L.L.C., Wichita, KS, and James J. White, Ann Arbor, Michigan, filed an amici curiae brief for American Financial Services Association and National Automobile Dealers Association., Patricia E. Hamilton, Henson, Clark, Hutton, Mudrick & Gragson, LLP, Topeka, KS, filed an amici curiae brief for Kansas Bankers Association., William M. Burke, Costa Mesa, CA, and Charles R. Hay, Foulston Siefkin, LLP, Topeka, KS, filed an amici curiae brief for Ford Motor Credit Company, LLC., Elaine M. Dowling, Oklahoma City, OK filed an amici curiae brief for Professors Ingrid M. Hillinger, Michael Hillinger, Adam J. Levitin, Michaela M. White, and Jean Braucher.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kenneth M. Gay, Lenexa, KS, for Appellees.