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Peggy Kirton, et al. v. Valley Health System, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 15-60023 · judgment September 12, 2017
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
• Whether a Bankruptcy Court cam declare a class unimpaired and, in a subsequent paragraph, impair the class of pensioners. • Whether the Bankruptcy Court lacks jurisdiction over these unimpaired creditors in this matter and is equitably stopped from acting otherwise. • If the pensioners were not unimpaired, as promised, they possessed voting rights which they were denied which voids the REORGANIZATION PLAN. • If the pensioners were impaired they possessed voting rights which they were denied. • Whether an Art. II Judge can exercise the duties of the Art. III judiciary or a California Superior Court absent specific Bankruptcy Court jurisdiction not present here. • Whether in a Chapter 9 bankruptcy the taking imposed in this matter, by the fiction of the class being unimpaired, resulted in an unconstitutional taking of a constitutionally protected property interest in their fully vested pension benefits without just compensation. • Whether the Bankruptcy Court allowed the payment of other debts without the payment of the substantially larger class deemed unimpaired when there are no funds provided for such purposes and/or by allowing the expenditure of the funds due to the unimpaired class which totally divested the class of any recovery whatsoever. • Whether once the debtor was dismissed from the mandate action any claimed jurisdiction failed.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Gregory G. Petersen
Gregory G. Petersen, A Law Corporation
For respondent
Robert E. Hess
Hinshaw & Culbertson, LLP
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- May 29 2018Petition DENIED.
- May 08 2018DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/24/2018.
- Apr 23 2018Waiver of right of respondent Metropolitan Life Insurance Company to respond filed.
- Apr 19 2018Waiver of right of respondents Valley Health System, et al. to respond filed.
- Jan 16 2018Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 18, 2018)