Legal Opinion
Jeffrey Krueger v. Michael Torres
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 19, 2016No. 14-11355PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:
This appeal of a bankruptcy court decision dismissing a chapter 7 case “for cause” can only be described as an exercise in chutzpah. The debtor flagrantly and repeatedly abused bankruptcy and court processes to retain assets for himself and defeat the legitimate claims of his business partners. The bankruptcy and district courts finally had enough of his manipulation and rightly dismissed pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 707(a) for the debtor’s bad faith conduct constituting “cause” for dismissal. We AFFIRM.
BACKGROUND
Appellant Krueger’s winding road to this court began in…
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