Alexander v. Compton (In re Bonham)

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “the equitable power [of substantive consolidation] undoubtedly survived enactment of the Bankruptcy Code” and noting that “[n]o case has held to the contrary”
• explaining that “[c]ourts have permitted the consolidation of non-debtor and debtor entities in furtherance of the equitable goals of substantive consolidation”
• observing that substantive consolidation disputes may be resolved by either contested matter or adversary proceeding, so long as the requirements of notice and an opportunity to be heard are satisfied
• noting that the bankruptcy court’s power of 9 substantive consolidation has been considered part of the 10 bankruptcy court’s general equitable powers since the passage of 11 the Bankruptcy Act of 1898 and that “this equitable power 12 undoubtedly survived enactment of the Bankruptcy Code”
• adopting the Second Circuit’s Augie/Res-tivo test and noting that the Augie/Restivo approach is “more grounded in substantive consolidation and economic theory [and] more easily applied” than tests used by other courts
• “The bankruptcy court did not err in substantively consolidating 24 the estates, nor in doing so nunc pro tunc.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

42 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

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  Third Circuit· 2005-10-12· cited 149×
• Slatkin v. Neilson
  Ninth Circuit· 2008-05-06· cited 146×
• In re City of Desert Hot Springs
  Ninth Circuit· 2003-08-11· cited 87×
• Eden Place v. Sholem Perl
  Ninth Circuit· 2016-01-08· cited 75×
• Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Verestar, Inc. v. American Tower Corp. (In Re Verestar, Inc.)
  S.D. New York· 2006-06-09· cited 73×
• Gugliuzza v. Federal Trade Commission
  Ninth Circuit· 2017-03-24· cited 71×
• In Re Noel Olshan, Debtor. R. Todd Neilson, Chapter 7 Trustee for the Estate of Noel Olshan v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 2004-01-28· cited 57×
• Warfield v. Alaniz
  Ninth Circuit· 2009-06-24· cited 48×
• Rains v. Flinn (In Re Rains)
  Ninth Circuit· 2005-11-07· cited 39×
• Rund v. Bank of America Corp. (In re EPD Investment Co.)
  Ninth Circuit· 2015-01-07· cited 33×
• Huntington National Bank v. Richardson Ex Rel. Estate of Cyberco Holdings, Inc.
  Sixth Circuit· 2013-08-20· cited 23×
• United States v. H. Wayne Hayes, Jr.
  Ninth Circuit· 2004-10-08· cited 21×
• Klestadt & Winters, LLP v. Cangelosi
  Ninth Circuit· 2012-03-06· cited 12×
• Johnson v. Neilson
  Ninth Circuit· 2008-05-06· cited 9×
• Prestige Ltd. Partnership-Concord v. East Bay Car Wash Partners
  Ninth Circuit· 2000-11-28· cited 8×
• Bank of America, N.A. v. Cd-04, Inc. (In re Owner Management Service, LLC Trustee Corps)
  C.D. California· 2015-04-29· cited 8×
• In re Archdiocese of Milwaukee
  E.D. Wisconsin· 2012-12-07· cited 7×
• Gugino v. Clark's Crystal Springs Ranch, LLC (In re Clark)
  D. Idaho· 2014-12-30· cited 6×
• RS Investments Ltd. v. RSM US, LLP
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2019-06-28· cited 5×
• Paris v. Walker (In re Walker)
  E.D. Tennessee· 2017-04-03· cited 5×

Cites

41 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Pepper v. Litton
  Supreme Court· 1939-12-04· cited 2,011×
• Local Loan Co. v. Hunt
  Supreme Court· 1934-04-30· cited 1,739×
• Bardes v. Hawarden Bank
  Supreme Court· 1900-05-21· cited 382×
• Sampsell v. Imperial Paper & Color Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1941-06-02· cited 268×
• In Re Bonner Mall Partnership, Debtor. Bonner Mall Partnership v. U.S. Bancorp Mortgage Co.
  Ninth Circuit· 1993-08-04· cited 232×
• In Re P.R.T.C., Inc., Debtor. Duckor Spradling & Metzger v. Baum Trust
  Ninth Circuit· 1999-05-19· cited 178×
• In Re Robert J. Mason, Debtor. Robert J. Mason v. Integrity Insurance Company and Sherwood & Roberts, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 1983-07-06· cited 161×
• McCalden v. California Library Ass'n
  Ninth Circuit· 1990-11-20· cited 154×
• Fish v. East
  Tenth Circuit· 1940-06-29· cited 145×
• In Re H. Frank Dominguez, Debtor. H. Frank Dominguez v. David D. Miller Denyse M. Miller
  Ninth Circuit· 1995-04-18· cited 121×
• In Re Auto-Train Corporation, Inc.
  D.C. Circuit· 1987-03-19· cited 119×
• Bankr. L. Rep. P 70,650 in Re Karen Virginia Stanton, Debtor. T.O. King v. Karen Virginia Stanton
  Ninth Circuit· 1985-07-26· cited 98×
• In Re Vylene Enterprises, Inc., Debtor. Vylene Enterprises, Inc. v. Naugles, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 1992-06-29· cited 81×
• Unnamed case
  Ninth Circuit· 1982-02-25· cited 77×
• In the Matter of Continental Vending MacHine Corp. And Continental Apco, Inc., Debtors. James Talcott, Inc. v. Irving L. Wharton, Trustee
  Second Circuit· 1975-06-05· cited 76×
• In Re Ida v. Reider and James M. Reider, Debtors. Ida v. Reider v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  Eleventh Circuit· 1994-09-13· cited 73×
• In Re Lewis
  First Circuit· 1997-05-12· cited 68×
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation v. Colonial Realty Company, Jonathan Googel, and Benjamin Sisti
  Second Circuit· 1992-06-01· cited 65×
• Elliott v. Four Seasons Properties (In re Frontier Properties, Inc.)
  Ninth Circuit· 1992-11-18· cited 62×
• In Re Vecco Construction Industries, Inc.
  E.D. Virginia· 1980-06-09· cited 56×