Legal Opinion
Hughes v. Tower Park Properties, LLC (In Re Tower Park Properties, LLC)
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 28, 2015No. 13-56045PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BYBEE, Circuit Judge:
The Bankruptcy Code confers a “right to be heard” with respect to “any issue in a case under [Chapter 11]” on any “party in interest.” 11 U.S.C. § 1109(b). We have previously held that party-in-interest sta-i tus is a necessary prerequisite to bankruptcy standing. In re Thorpe Insulation Co., 677 F.3d 869, 884 (9th Cir.2012). In this case, we consider whether a beneficiary of a trust who disagrees with the way the trust was administered by former trustees is a “party in interest” with standing to object to the bankruptcy court’s approval of a settlement agreement…
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