In re Hansen, 2017 BNH 005 (granting the chapter 7 trusee's motion to sell patent assets, deferring to the trustee's business judgment that this sale under 11 U.S.C. § 363(b) was in the best interests of the parties as it resulted in a certain and immediate recovery to creditors, and finding that the effective settlement of the pending patent case was reasonable under the four-part standard applicable to FRBP 9019 in the First Circuit even though the debtor would lose the possibility of receiving a surplus).
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Robbins v. Walter E. Jock Oil Co., Inc. (In re Robbins), 2017 BNH 004 (awarding damages for a violation of the discharge injunction and opting to use the lodestar approach in making an award of attorney's fees, rather than relying on the contingent fee called for in fee agreement; fees reduced given the absence of detailed contemporaneous records of the work counsel had performed in the case).
In re Wood, 2017 BNH 003 (granting the debtors' motion under 11 U.S.C. § 506(a) and 1322(b)(2), seeking to void the creditor's secured mortgage lien on the debtor's principal residence, as the Court found that the value of the debtor's residence was less than the first mortgagee's cliam and therefore the creditor's cliam was wholly unsecured).
Kirk v. Burrows (In re Burrows), 2017 BNH 002 (denying plaintiff's motion for summary judgment under FRBP 7056 because she did not sustain her burden of establishing that she could use her California default judgment to collaterally estop the debtor/plaintiff from re-litigating issues in this adversary proceeding, which seeks to except the plaintiff's judgment debt from discharge pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(2)(A) and (a)(6)).
In re ARSN Liquidating Corp. Inc., 2017 BNH 001 (holding that the debtor's workers' compensation experience rating cannot be imposed on the purchaser of substantially all of the debtor's assets through a bankruptcy sale approved by the Court pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 363(f) because that experience rating was an "interest" of which the debtor's assets were sold free and clear).
In re Nevins, 564 B.R. 151 (Bankr. D.N.H. 2017) (adopting the "separate filings rule" as the method of allocating a joint tax refund between the debtor and a non-debtor spouse in contested matters)
Plumber's Edge, Inc. v. Veino (In re Veino), 2016 BNH 012 (concluding that arbitration award against the debtor for taking former employee's customer lists and rolodex without authorization for use at a direct competitor was excepted from discharge under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(4) as a debt arising from larceny, but finding that the plaintiff failed to sustain its burden in showing that the debt was incurred by fraud under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(2) or that the debtor failed to comply with orders of this court warranting denial of discharge 11 U.S.C. § 727(a)(6)(A)).
In re Toronto, 2016 BNH 011 (overruling the debtor's objection to his former spouse's claim because debtor's obligations under the couple's divorce decree to pay her $20,000.00 or provide her with a comparable vehicle to the one she drove during the marriage, and to assume certain marital debts were "domestic support obligations" within the meaning of 11 U.S.C. § 101(14A) and entitled to priority treatment under the debtor's Chapter 13 plan; also denying the debtor's motion for sanctions against the former spouse finding that her contempt petition filed in the state court neither violated the automatic stay nor damaged the debtor.)
DeWitt v. Stewart (In re Stewart), 2016 BNH 010 (granting the defendant’s motion for summary judgment on the plaintiff’s claims under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(2)(B)—the plaintiffs did not present sufficient evidence of a statement of financial condition—and under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(4) because the plaintiffs did not present evidence of the existence of an express or technical trust, or that the elements of common law embezzlement were satisfied).
Askenaizer v. Recore Trading Company, LLC (In re Catco Recycling, LLC), 559 B.R. 293 (Bankr. D.N.H. 2016) (ordering the defendant, pursuant to the provisions of 11 U.S.C. $ 542(b), to turn over to the chapter 7 trustee the remainder of the final payment due under the terms of a purchase and sale agreement between the debtor and the defendant).