United States Ninth Circuit

In a bankruptcy appeal involving a dispute over one of the estate's assets, a legal malpractice lawsuit, a judgment dismissing appellant's appeal from the bankruptcy court as moot is reversed where: 1) the bankruptcy court erred in assuming mootness to adjudicate a motion to stay a decision awarding the asset to the defending lawyers, which if decided on the merits, would have controlled the mootness question; and 2) the district court simply compounded the mootness error in its decision.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/01/2007
• Published 10/01/2007

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• United States Ninth Circuit

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