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Clean Air Car Service & Parking Branch Three, LLC v. Clean Air Car Service & Parking Branch Two, LLC, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, No. 24-1742, 24-1738, 24-1743 · judgment May 15, 2025
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
There are two issues presented for review:
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whether the Bankruptcy Court has subject matter jurisdiction over a bankruptcy petition under 28 U.S.C. § 157 and 28 U.S.C. § 1334, filed by an allegedly managing member on behalf of a bankruptcy debtor, while the petitioners raised an independent claim under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and 28 U.S.C. § 1738 that the alleged managing member is a bad-faith transferee under U.C.C. § 9-617 and its Official Comments in a U.C.C. Article 9 sale; and
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if so, whether the independent claim disputing the ownership of the bankruptcy debtor constitutes an adverse claim sufficient to defeat a buyer’ good-faith purchaser status under 11 U.S.C. § 363(m) in a bankruptcy sale for the bankruptcy debtor’s property.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Joe Zhenghong Zhou
Law Offices of Joe Zhenghong Zhou & Associates
For respondent
Jay Samuel Hellman
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Jan 12 2026Petition DENIED.
- Dec 03 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/9/2026.
- Nov 30 2025Reply of petitioner Clean Air Car Service & Parking Branch Three, LLC filed. (Distributed)
- Nov 17 2025Brief of respondents Clean Air Car Service & Parking Branch Two, LLC, et al. in opposition filed.
- Sep 19 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 17, 2025)