Smith v. Silverman

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• affirming bankruptcy court decision to deny motion to motion to reopen to pursue adversary proceeding where underlying complaint was meritless
• debtor’s claim that a trustee breached fiduciary duty by failing to prosecute estate’s claims accrued on “the date that the underlying causes of action expired”
• “[T]he trustee exercised his sound business judgment in declining to assume the expense of raising and/or pursuing the legal claims identified by appellants.”
• \[a] [Chapter 7] bankruptcy trustee is immune from suit for personal liability for acts taken as a matter of business judgment in acting in accordance with statutory or other duty or pursuant to court order.\
• “[A] bankruptcy trustee is immune from suit for personal liability for acts taken as a matter of business judgment in acting in accordance with statutory or other duty or pursuant to court order.” (alteration in original

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).