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In re Berman

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure
District court's affirmance of a bankruptcy court's judgment that a creditor failed to prove that a debt owed to it was non-dischargeable under 11...

Shaoxing County Huayue Import & Export v. Bhaumik

Corporation & Enterprise Law, Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure
In a bankrupt corporation's creditor's action to recover payment in state court from an individual based on an alter ego theory of liability, trial...

Parmalat Capital Fin. Ltd. v. Bank of Am. Corp.

Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In an action against an accounting firm for professional malpractice and fraud, which was removed from Illinois state court, the district court's...

Ransom v. FIA Card Servs., N.A.

Bankruptcy Law
In a petition for Chapter 13 bankruptcy relief, the Ninth Circuit's affirmance of the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel's order denying the confirmation of...

In re: Rodriguez

Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Property Law & Real Estate
District court's affirmance of a Bankruptcy Court's determination that Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. (Countrywide) did not have a pre-petition claim...

In re: Thomas Kane

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Family Law
District court's affirmance of the Bankruptcy Court's decision not to apply judicial estoppel to the entirety of a proof of claim filed by his...

MCI Sales & Serv., Inc. v. Hinton

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability, Remedies
In plaintiffs' suit against the manufacturer, importer, and distributor of a motorcoach arising from a serious automobile accident, claiming that the...

In re: Settlement Facility Dow Corning Trust

Bankruptcy Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
District court's interpretation of two orders entered by a bankruptcy court of Dow Corning's Amended Joint Plan of Reorganization (Plan), arising from...

Rea v. Federated Investors

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's suit claiming that defendant violated 11 U.S.C. section 525(b) for refusing to hire him because he had previously declared bankruptcy,...

Relational, LLC v. Hodges

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Debt Collection
In plaintiff's suit against a guarantor for failing to pay $750,000 of debt that his company owed to plaintiff, district court's denial of defendant's...