By Herbert L. Beskin, Chapter 13 Trustee for the Western District of Virginia (Charlottesville) The Seventh Circuit thought that it had finished dealing with the intersection of cars, fines, Chapter 13, and the City of Chicago when it rendered its decision earlier in 2019 in “Steenes I.” In re Steenes, 918 F.3d 554 . Alas, it was not to be,...
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By The Honorable William Houston Brown (Retired)
Mediator is professional person and employment requires court approval. The Chapter 7 trustee moved to toll the time for filing a recovery complaint to permit the parties to conduct mediation, using a retired bankruptcy judge as mediator, and the bankruptcy court questioned whether the trustee would bill for his time in participating in the mediation and would use estate funds to pay a portion of the mediator’s fee. The resulting opinion found that a trustee in any case would not be permitted to unilaterally agree to mediation for . . .
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