Owoc v. Liquidating Trustee on Behalf of Liquidating Trust, — F.4th —-, 2026 WL 2294569 (11th Cir. August 10, 2026) (click for .pdf). The issue on appeal was whether a corporate debtor’s Subchapter S election constitutes property of the bankruptcy estate. Pursuant to a Chapter 11 plan, the debtor corporation’s reconstituted board removed the sole… Continue Reading
In a relatively brief opinion, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on the deadlines for appealing an order from the District Court (acting as an appellate court for a Bankruptcy Court Order) to the Court of Appeals. Appellants appealed a Bankruptcy Court Order to the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. On… Continue Reading
Apologies in advance for the lengthy post and quotes, but my goal was to provide a meaningful summary of the change-of-course for the Eleventh Circuit and scaling back the application of the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine. The Rooker-Feldman Doctrine, in general, is a “narrow jurisdictional doctrine” that “simply establishes that a party who loses a case in… Continue Reading
