MEMORANDUM OPINION DOUGLAS D. DODD, Bankruptcy Judge. Defendants Woodlands Development, L.L.C., Anthony Reginelli, Shawna Reginelli, Peter Steur and Lee Steur (collectively "Woodlands") moved the court to dismiss or to abstain from considering the amended complaint filed by plaintiffs Soundra Temple Johnson ("Johnson") and Johnson Property Group, L.L.C. ("JPG"), debtors in jointly-administered cases. 1 Woodlands seeks the same result as to defendant Regions Bank's ("Regions") cross claim....
MEMORANDUM OPINION DOUGLAS D. DODD, Bankruptcy Judge. William and Carolyn Carroll filed chapter 13 on May 21, 2008, but within three months had their case converted to a chapter 7 liquidation. RedPen Properties, L.L.C. ("RedPen"), a Louisiana limited liability company whose only members are Mr. and Mrs. Carroll, filed chapter 7 on July 2, 2008. Samera L. Abide, chapter 7 trustee for both bankruptcy estates, moved to substantively consolidate the two estates. The Carrolls alone oppose...
MEMORANDUM OPINION DOUGLAS D. DODD, Bankruptcy Judge. John Johnson sued debtor Melvin L. Hampton for a judgment declaring nondischargeable under 11 U.S.C. 523(a)(6) Hampton's debt to Johnson memorialized in a state court judgment for damages resulting from an automobile accident. The plaintiff did not prevail first, because he did not prove that the defendant willfully and maliciously caused his injuries; and second, because his theory of recovery in the state court proceeding estops him...
MEMORANDUM OPINION DOUGLAS D. DODD, Bankruptcy Judge. Plaintiffs Martin A. Schott, chapter 7 trustee, the United States of America, Guaranty Bank & Trust Company, Ryland Enterprises, Inc., and American Forestry Service of Miss., Inc., sued to deny a discharge to debtors Peter and Alfreda Williams under 11 U.S.C. 727(a)(4). Plaintiffs alleged that the debtors knowingly and fraudulently misstated information in, and omitted information from, their schedules of assets and debts and statement...
