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The United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania (in case citations, M.D. Pa.) is a district level federal court with jurisdiction over approximately one half of Pennsylvania. The court was created in 1901 by subdividing the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the United States ...
He became Chief Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania in December 2019. [6] His term will expire on April 5, 2031. [7] Judge Van Eck is a member of the American, Pennsylvania, and Dauphin County Bar Associations, the American Bankruptcy Institute and the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. [8]
United States bankruptcy courts are courts created under Article I of the United States Constitution. [1] The current system of bankruptcy courts was created by the United States Congress in 1978, effective April 1, 1984. [2] United States bankruptcy courts function as units of the district courts and have subject-matter jurisdiction over ...
The bankruptcy court denied the defendant's motion to dismiss, and the defendant appealed to the district court. The district court held that 28 U.S.C. §1471 violated Article III of the Constitution because it delegated Article III powers to a non-Article III court by its broad grant of jurisdiction to the bankruptcy courts.
Oct. 21—Three months after an overhauled Bishop's Lodge resort northeast of Santa Fe reopened, a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge in Delaware awarded ownership of the luxury property to an Arizona firm.
The Bankruptcy Judge rejected these arguments. Marrama appealed to the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the First Circuit, which affirmed the lower court's ruling. [3] On appeal from the panel, the full First Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed, rejecting the argument that §706(a) gives a Chapter 7 debtor an absolute right to convert to Chapter 13 ...
Bankruptcy judges are officers of the district court in which their bankruptcy court is located, but do not have the full power of district court judges. [1] As of 2023, there were 298 bankruptcy judges in authorized positions along with 26 retired bankruptcy judges who had been recalled to service. [2]
As President Donald Trump moved last month to free the people who stormed the U.S. Capitol, his newly appointed top prosecutor in Washington put his name on a request that a judge drop charges ...