Legal Opinion
James A. Knight v. Bank of America
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 5, 2012No. 11-3588PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.
Using a judicial estoppel theory, debtor-appellant James Knight attempts to turn a harmless and seemingly inadvertent failure to disclose an adverse interest in a bankruptcy proceeding into a potential multimillion dollar windfall. He appeals from an order in the jointly administered bankruptcy cases of Knight-Celotex, LLC and Knight Industries I, LLC (collectively, the “Companies”). That order permitted the Companies’ chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee to assign to Bank of America certain causes of action that the Companies’ estate held against Knight as an individual. At…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- In Re Frank Pio Crivello, Debtor. Kravit, Gass & Weber, S.C. v. M. Scott Michel, United States TrusteeCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1998
- Wiese v. Appeal of Community Bank of Central WisconsinCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2009
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