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.
Jahn v. Burke, No. 16-6603 (6th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: February 14, 2017
Description: Whether a debtor, as a party-in-interest, can compel the trustee to abandon property of inconsequential value.
Result: Affirmed, debtor won. July 14, 2017.
VPSI, Inc. v. Padula, No. 15-2114 (4th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: January 26, 2016
Description: Whether Chapter 13 debtors are required to amend their bankruptcy schedules to reflect post-petition tort actions and whether debtors have standing to bring causes of action in their own name on behalf of the estate.
Result: Affirmed, per curiam, June 9, 2016
In re Peet, No.15-2040 (8th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: September 23, 2015
Description: Whether chapter 7 debtors’ filing of Bankruptcy automatically severed joint tenancy in which the debtors owned property with the debtor wife’s parents, so that, when both parents died post-petition, debtors became sole owners and interest in property became property of the estate.
Result: Affirmed April 27, 2016.
Jones v. Bob Evans Farms, Inc., No. 15-2058 (8th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: August 10, 2015
Description: Whether under Rule 1007(h) a chapter 13 debtor has a duty to disclose acquisition of post-petition legal claim.
Result: Affirmed, January 26, 2016. Debtor lost.