Abboud v. Ground Round, Inc. (In Re Ground Round, Inc.)

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• emphasizing that “the label that state law affixes to a particular [property] interest in certain contexts is not always dispositive.”
• stating that the existence and extent of a debtor’s interest in property is a “creature of state law”
• holding that “[s]ection 544 invokes state law”
• affirming district court’s imposition of terminating sanction for 21 discovery violations
• “[A] Bivens action can be maintained against a defendant in 16 his or her individual capacity only, and not in his or her official capacity.”
• “Only ‘willfulness, bad faith, and fault’ justify terminating sanctions” 16 (quoting Jorgensen v. Cassiday, 320 F.3d 906, 912 (9th Cir. 2003))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).