Case Name: In re: T.G. MORGAN, INC., Debtor, Diane S. Blodgett, Appellant, v. John R. Stoebner, Appellee; Edward Clement; Audrey Florence; Tom Lingenfelter, Appellants, v. John R. Stoebner, Appellee; Diane S. Blodgett; Edward Clement; Audrey Florence; Tom Lingenfelter, Appellants, v. John R. Stoebner, Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2009-08-27
Citations: 343 F. App'x 171
Docket Number: No. 08-3577
Parties: In re: T.G. MORGAN, INC., Debtor, Diane S. Blodgett, Appellant, v. John R. Stoebner, Appellee, Edward Clement; Audrey Florence; Tom Lingenfelter, Appellants, v. John R. Stoebner, Appellee, Diane S. Blodgett; Edward Clement; Audrey Florence; Tom Lingenfelter, Appellants, v. John R. Stoebner, Appellee.
Judges: Before MELLOY, BEAM, and COLLOTON, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 343
Pages: 171–172

Head Matter:
In re: T.G. MORGAN, INC., Debtor, Diane S. Blodgett, Appellant, v. John R. Stoebner, Appellee, Edward Clement; Audrey Florence; Tom Lingenfelter, Appellants, v. John R. Stoebner, Appellee, Diane S. Blodgett; Edward Clement; Audrey Florence; Tom Lingenfelter, Appellants, v. John R. Stoebner, Appellee.
No. 08-3577.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted: June 11, 2009.
Filed: Aug. 27, 2009.
Carl Peter Erlinder, William Mitchell College Of Law, St. Paul, MN, John M. Tancabel, Tancabel Law Office, St. Paul, MN, for Appellant.
Gordon Brainard Conn, Jr., Kalina & Wills, Minneapolis, MN, John R. Stoebner, Lapp & Libra, Minneapolis, MN, for Ap-pellee.
Before MELLOY, BEAM, and COLLOTON, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Diane S. Blodgett, Edward Clement, Audrey Florence, and Tom Lingenfelter appeal a decision of the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel ("BAP") affirming the bankruptcy court's denial of their objections to the Chapter 7 Trustee's Final Report and of them motion under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b). This appeal arises out of the involuntary bankruptcy of T.G. Morgan, Inc., a rare coin investment group that was sued by the Federal Trade Commission and eventually reached a settlement with the Commission. Appellants have been parties to various disputes in the bankruptcy proceedings, which began over seventeen years ago and have resulted in several previous appeals to this court. See, e.g., Lingenfelter v. Stoebner, 188 Fed.Appx. 554 (8th Cir.2006); Stoebner v. Lingenfelter, 115 F.3d 576 (8th Cir. 1997); Stoebner v. Blodgett, No. 96-1083, 1996 WL 563881 (8th Cir. Oct.4, 1996); Stoebner v. Parry, Murray, Ward & Moxley, 91 F.3d 1091 (8th Cir.1996).
On July 23, 2007, the Chapter 7 trustee, John R. Stoebner, submitted his Final Re port and Proposed Distribution, which sought to distribute the remaining funds in the bankruptcy estate to pay the claims of unsecured creditors and administrative expenses, including trustee's and attorney's fees. Appellants objected to the final report, arguing that the Trustee had breached his fiduciary duties and taken other illegal actions throughout the bankruptcy proceedings. On August 27, 2007, the Trustee responded to the objections and gave notice of a hearing on the objections before the bankruptcy court on September 5, 2007. On the same day as the hearing, at which the appellants did not appear, the bankruptcy court overruled their objections and approved the Trustee's report. Appellants appealed the order to the BAP.
Appellants subsequently argued in correspondence to the bankruptcy court that they had not received notice of the hearing, and they eventually filed a Rule 60(b) motion seeking relief from the order overruling their objections. The BAP remanded the pending appeal to the bankruptcy court for the limited purpose of ruling on the Rule 60(b) motion. Following a hearing, the bankruptcy court denied the motion. Appellants moved for reconsideration, which the bankruptcy court denied. Appellants appealed, and the BAP consolidated the two appeals.
The BAP affirmed the orders of the bankruptcy court. See Blodgett v. Stoebner (In re T.G. Morgan, Inc.), 894 B.R. 478 (8th Cir.BAP2008). It held that the bankruptcy court properly overruled appellants' objections to the final report and denied their Rule 60(b) motion. The BAP concluded that appellants lacked standing to object to the report and that their claims were barred by res judicata and collateral estoppel. Id. at 483-85. With respect to their claims of lack of notice, the BAP held that appellants were not entitled to notice, because they lacked standing, and that even if they were entitled to notice, the bankruptcy court did not err in finding that the notice was proper under the circumstances. Id. at 485-86.
Having carefully reviewed the record, we affirm the judgment of the bankruptcy court for the reasons stated in the BAP's opinion. See 8th Cir. Rule 47B.
The Honorable Robert J. Kressel, United Minnesota. States Bankruptcy Judge for the District of