Ford, McDonald, McPartlin & Borden, P.A. v. Hooksett Landing, LLC (In re NH Highway Hotel Grp.), 2023 BNH 005 (awarding damages on default judgment for breach of purchase and sale agreement that contemplated the assignment of debtor’s right to purchase land and certain access rights; finding that, under New Hampshire law, economic loss doctrine barred claim for damages for negligent misrepresentation claim; and finding that liquidated damages clause in purchase and sale agreement was not enforceable).
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Dahar v. Foistner (In re Foistner), 2023 BNH 004 (denying defendants’ motion to dismiss complaint based on insufficient service and process without prejudice subject to plaintiff perfecting service on certain individuals, corporations, trusts and trust beneficiaries; dismissing plaintiff’s claim that defendant-corporations’ assets were property of the debtor’s bankruptcy estate; denying defendants’ motion to dismiss the plaintiff’s claim that defendant-corporations, trustees and beneficiaries of the defendant-trusts were alter egos of the debtor, and that their veils should be pierced on claim of alter ego liability; denying motion to dismiss claim for successor liability against one of the corporate defendants; dismissing some of the plaintiff’s claims to avoid preferential, fraudulent or post-petition transfer claims under Bankruptcy Code §§ 544, 547, 548 and 549; denying dismissal of aiding and abetting claim; and granting the plaintiff leave to perfect service pursuant to Bankruptcy Rule 7004(m) for cause, and to amend the complaint pursuant to Rule 15(a)(2) and Bankruptcy Rule 7015).
Berkley Insurance Company v. Keevers, et al. (In re Keevers), 2023 BNH 003 (denying joint debtors a chapter 7 discharge pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 727(a)(3) and (a)(4)(A) (Counts I and II) based on their concealment of documents and financial information from which their financial condition could be ascertained without reasonable justification and reckless disregard of their disclosure obligations when they made material false oaths on their monthly operating reports and during the § 341 Meeting of Creditors, and entering judgment in the debtors’ favor as to Count III (11 U.S.C. § 727(a)(6)), finding that their failure to comply with the Court’s orders was not “willful” or intentional).
Pope v. U.S. Bank, et al. (In re Pope), 2023 BNH 002 (applying the lodestar method to determine plaintiff counsel’s entitlement to reasonable attorney’s fees under 11 U.S.C. § 362(k)(1) and determining that plaintiff counsel’s entitlement to attorney’s fees pursuant to § 25 of the plaintiff’s mortgage and New Hampshire state law required consideration of the same factors).
In re Prospect-Woodward Home, 2023 BNH 001 (determining that RSA 447:12-a did not govern a priority dispute between a construction contractor’s mechanic’s lien and a construction lender’s mortgage and finding that the construction contractor’s mechanic’s lien had priority over the construction lender’s mortgage, pursuant to New Hampshire’s general race-notice rule, as the construction lender was at least on inquiry notice regarding the contractor’s unrecorded interest in the property as tree clearing work had commenced on the project before the construction mortgage was recorded), aff’d in part, vacated in part, Civ. No. 23-cv-0326-LM (D.N.H. Oct. 16, 2023).
In re Piandes, Bk. No. 22-10210-MAF (Bankr. D.N.H. Aug. 18, 2022) (denying debtor’s motion seeking reconsideration of the court’s order granting relief from the automatic stay because (a) the stay has terminated with respect to the residence pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §§ 362(c)(1) and 554(d) and therefore relief from the stay under 11 U.S.C. § 362(d) is no longer necessary, and (b) even if relief were necessary, relief from the stay would be appropriately granted under 11 U.S.C. § 362(d)(2) as the debtor lacks equity in the property and the property is not necessary for an effective reorganization).
Pope v. U.S. Bank, Nat’l Ass’n, as Legal Title Trustee for Truman 2012 SC2 Title Trust, et al. (In re Pope), 647 B.R. 597 (Bankr. D.N.H. 2022) (determining that a mortgagee and its mortgage loan servicer (the “defendants”), were liable to the plaintiff-debtor on her claims of breach of contract, violation of the automatic stay under 11 U.S.C. § 362(k)(1) and contempt of the court’s order confirming the plaintiff-debtor’s chapter 13 plan where the defendants failed to treat the plaintiff-debtor’s mortgage loan as current and misapplied post-petition escrow payments).
In re Brady, 2022 BNH 003 (sustaining the trustee’s objection to the debtor’s assertion of a separate homestead exemption under RSA 480:1 on behalf of her non-debtor spouse as he is not an owner of the couple’s residence, and sustaining the trustee’s objection to the debtor’s similar amendment to Schedule D as the homestead exemption does not create a statutory or other type of lien on the couple’s residence in favor of a non-debtor, non-owner spouse), aff’d, Brady v. Sumski, No. 1:22-cv-00272-SM (D.N.H. Aug. 23, 2023).
In re St. Laurent, 2022 BNH 002 (sustaining the chapter 7 trustee’s objection to the debtor’s claim of a homestead exemption under RSA 480:1 in the proceeds from the sale of the debtor’s marital home as the debtor was not an owner of the property at the time of his divorce and thus was unable to satisfy the ownership requirement).
Robinson v. Robinson (In re Robinson), 2022 BNH 001 (denying the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment as the findings of the Massachusetts state court special verdict were not sufficient for this court to apply collateral estoppel to find the state court judgment debt nondischargeable under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(2)(A), (a)(4), or (a)(6)).