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United States Courts Opinions (USCOURTS) collection is a collaborative effort between the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) and the Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AOUSC) to provide public access to opinions from selected United States appellate, district, and bankruptcy courts.
The District of Nebraska offers a database of opinions for the years 1997 to current, listed by year and judge. For a more detailed search, enter the keyword or case number in the search box above.
A PR of a decedent's estate didn't timely file a claim because she thought simply being listed in the schedules was sufficient. When she learned otherwise, she filed a late claim, which the court permitted under Rule 3002(c)(2) in the interest of justice
Court dismissed DIP's fraudulent transfer claims regarding the business's leveraged buyout because no transfer of debtor's property occurred, and even if it had, the lenders & initial transferee were indispensable parties who couldn't now be added.
Debtor's equitable interest in the expected distribution in 2 years of the corpus of a testamentary trust is not property of the bankruptcy estate because of the trust's spendthrift provision
Case dismissed because debtor exceeded Chap. 13 debt limits. Claims at issue were liquidated and noncontingent, even though they were disputed
Statute of limitations for purposes of fraudulent transfer begins to run when deed is recorded. Settlement of state court lawsuits regarding fraudulent transfers is not res judicata as to trustee's action
Debtor's failure to completely pay post-petition income taxes is not a material default with respect to a confirmed plan for purposes of section 1307(c)(6)