Legal Opinion
Augustine Bustos v. Steven Molasky
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 12, 2016No. 14-60080PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
THOMAS, Chief Judge:
In this case we are asked to decide whether an intervenor can continue to litigate as the sole remaining party in a bankruptcy proceeding involving his own claim, when the original party who represented his interest, and whose adversary complaint he adopte^ without filing his own, was dismissed for failure to prosecute. Because we conclude that he can proceed, we reverse and remand.
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This appeal, the second in this bankruptcy proceeding, concerns Augustine Bustos’s ongoing efforts to pursue an exception-to-discharge claim under 11 U.S.C. § 523(c) against Steven…
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