Case ID: br_568/html/0696-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

IN RE: E. Daniel BORS, III, Debtor, Simona Tanasescu, Appellant, v. E. Daniel Bors, III, Appellee.
    No. 13-60018
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted December 14, 2016 
    
    Filed December 23, 2016
    Simona Tanasescu, Pro Se
    Michael Edward Hickey, Esquire, Bankruptcy Counsel, Corrons-Hickey & Hickey, Santa Ana, CA, for Appellee
    Before: WALLACE, LEAVY, and FISHER, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Appellant Simona Tanasescu appeals pro se from the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel’s (“BAP”) order affirming the bankruptcy court’s dismissal of Tanasescu’s adversary proceeding. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 158(d)(1). We independently review the bankruptcy court’s decision without deference to the BAP. Turtle Rock Meadows Homeowners Ass’n v. Slyman (In re Slyman), 234 F.3d 1081, 1085 (9th Cir. 2000). We affirm.

The bankruptcy court properly dismissed Tanasescu’s adversary proceeding for failure to state a claim for relief under 11 U.S.C. 727(d)(1) because Tanasescu failed to allege facts sufficient to show that, but for Bors’ alleged fraud in his bankruptcy filings, Bors’ would have been denied his discharge. See Jones v. U.S. Tr., Eugene, 736 F.3d 897, 899-900 (9th Cir. 2013) (to revoke a debtor’s discharge based upon false oaths in connection with his petition for discharge, the fraud must be material, or, sufficient to cause denial of the discharge if known at the time of discharge).

The bankruptcy court did not abuse its discretion in denying Tanasescu leave to amend to state a claim of nondischarge-ability under 11 U.S.C. § 523 where the court dismissed the adversary proceeding without prejudice to Tanasescu filing such a claim.

We reject as without merit Tanasescu’s contentions that the bankruptcy court and the BAP were biased or unfairly prejudiced her, or that she qualified for relief under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b).

AFFIRMED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.