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Victor P. Kearney v. Unsecured Creditors Committee, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, No. 19-2209 · judgment February 24, 2021
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
I. When does a lower district court have the sole dis cretion to influence, lead, dictate, supersede, deny, or nullify the jurisdiction of the higher federal bank ruptcy court’s actions or decision(s) by circumventing the appointment of an independent and impartial bankruptcy trustee, that is a requirement of trust law, in a liquidation of an estate trust’s assets; thus, disal lowing an appellants 14th amendment rights to fair and impartial due process? II. If a district or federal court judge and/or co-trustees in their capacity make a determination that a spendthrift trust beneficiary is incapable of managing his or her finances as a result of a behavioral pattern, then isn’t it incumbent upon the judicial system to re quire, mandate, or obligate the district or federal court judge(s) or co-trustees to seek and obtain independent outside opinion(s) from financial and mental health ex perts prior to administering a final decision? Are the courts considered omniscient in the absence of outside experts? A court cannot commit a person to an institu tion unless a psychiatrist determines that person is harmful to themselves or society. III. When a district court has already admitted that the design of a trust has inherent language leading to conflict, how can the court claim the settlers couldn’t have anticipated the acrimony, vitriol, and legal bat tles? Current trust law acknowledges that remain derman should not and cannot be allowed to act as
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Victor P. Kearney
For respondent
James A. Askew
Askew & White, LLC
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Dec 13 2021Petition DENIED.
- Nov 23 2021DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/10/2021.
- Nov 16 2021Waiver of right of respondents Louis Abruzzo and Benjamin Abruzzo, Trustees of the Mary Pat Abruzzo Kearney Testamentary Trusts B and C to respond filed.
- Nov 16 2021Waiver of right of respondent Kevin Yearout to respond filed.
- Nov 16 2021Waiver of right of respondent Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors to respond filed.
- Sep 03 2021Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 15, 2021)