Paine v. Dickey (In Re Paine)

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that an order reopening a closed case “was simply a ‘mechanical device’ that did not afford or deny the debtors any affirmative relief’
• noting that bankruptcy appellate panel may raise jurisdictional issues sua sponte
• debtors did not have standing to appeal order reopening case to allow creditor to file dischargeability complaint; debtors’ only interests were as potential defendants in adversary action that had yet to be filed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).