Type: Amicus
Date: December 12, 2017
Description: Whether debtor has a right to an exemption of more than the equity on the day of filing when there is room to capture increased value in exemption.
Result: Pending
Nebel v. Warfield (In re Nebel) No. 17-16350 (9th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: November 16, 2017
Description: Whether the trustee is entitled to turnover of nontransferable property.
Result: Pending
Nebel 9th Cir NACBA amicus Nov 2017
Isaacs v. DBI-ASG Coinvestor Fund, No. 17-5815 (6th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: September 28, 2017
Description: Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine can divest a bankruptcy court of subject matter jurisdiction over causes of action that arise only under the Bankruptcy Code.
Result: Pending
Brace v. Speier, No. 17-60032 (9th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: October 5, 2017
Description: Whether court erred in applying California’s community property presumption rather than record title presumption to find that property owned by debtor and his non-debtor spouse was part of bankruptcy estate in its entirety.
Result: Affirmed in part, vacated in part, Nov. 9, 2020.
Hardesty v. Haber (In re Haber), No. 17-3323 (6th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: June 28, 2017
Description: Whether trustee may ignore abandonment of estate property where there is post-petition increase in value of that property.
Result: Judgment affirmed, October 30, 2017. Debtor won.
Vitalich v. Bank of New York Mellon, No. 16-16584 (9th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: August 24, 2017
Description: Whether automatic stay terminate in its entirety after 30 days under section 362(c)(3)(A).
Result: Pending.
Hunsaker v. United States, No. 16-35991 (9th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: May 23, 2017
Description: Whether section 106 waives government immunity from money damages for willful violation of the automatic stay.
Result: Pending
Hunsaker 9th Cir. NCBRC amicus May 2017
ECMC v. Murray, No. 16-2838 (D. Kans.)
Type: Amicus
Date: April 27, 2017
Description: Whether, in student loan discharge case, income driven repayment plans are relevant to the issue of undue hardship.
Result: Affirmed, September 22, 2017. Debtor won.
Jubber v. Bird, No. 16-39 and Jubber v. Christensen, No. 16-40 (B.A.P. 10th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: April 6, 2017
Description: Denial of Chapter 7 trustee compensation for attempting to sell over-encumbered homestead.
Result: Judgment affirmed, November 30, 2017.
Riekki v. Bayview Financial Loan, No. 16-16438 (9th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: March 6, 2017
Description: Whether Bank of America violated the FCRA by reporting debtor’s debt as delinquent post-discharge.”
Result: Pending