United States Ninth Circuit

State courts lack 1) jurisdiction to determine whether a listed and scheduled creditor received adequate notice of discharge proceedings and 2) authority to modify bankruptcy court orders discharging a claim and enjoining collection on a debt; bankruptcy court was required to reopen proceedings to protect jurisdiction over enforcement of its own orders.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/10/2001
• Decided 05/07/2002
• Published 05/07/2002

Judges

• FISHER, Circuit Judge., Before: McKEOWN and FISHER, Circuit Judges, and HAGEN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John C. Tobin, Hanover & Schnitzer, San Bernardino, CA, for the debtor-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• William J. Light, David B. Felsenthal, Law Offices of Todd Rash, Riverside, CA, for the appellee.