DECISION AFTER TRIAL Christopher D. Jaime , UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY JUDGE . Introduction This is an adversary proceeding (1) to have a debt excepted from discharge under 11 U.S.C. 523 and (2) objecting to discharge under 11 U.S.C. 727. The plaintiffs are the chapter 7 trustee appointed in In re Jack Burns, Case No. 10-22742, and Sally Wong. 1 The defendant is Desiree Rebecca Lewis. Lewis is a debtor in the underlying chapter 7 case filed and pending in this court as In re...
MEMORANDUM FREDRICK E. CLEMENT , Bankruptcy Judge . Resolution of this summary judgment motion pivots on a single issue: whether the California Correctional Peace Officers Association acquired a lien that attached to Daisy Corbett's workers' compensation claim before her bankruptcy and established in rem rights (which survive discharge) against her ensuing post-petition award. Finding that its lien did not attach to Corbett's workers' compensation claim before her bankruptcy, the motion...
OPINION CHRISTOPHER N. KLEIN , Bankruptcy Judge : A reversal on appeal voided a money judgment on which wages had been garnished. The garnishee wants his money back. The backstory is a testosterone-fueled vendetta by Service Employees International Union ("SEIU") against former officers of a SEIU local who lost a power struggle with SEIU and, after SEIU ousted them, became officers in a newlyformed rival union. SEIU sued and obtained money judgments against the out-casts. One of those...
