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Case: 15-12931   Date Filed: 06/10/2016     Page: 1 of 2

                                                        [DO NOT PUBLISH]

             IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

                     FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT
                       ________________________

                             No. 15-12931
                         Non-Argument Calendar
                       ________________________

         D.C. Docket Nos. 5:14-cv-00339-MTT; 1:10-bkc-50309-JPS

In re: PMF ENTERPRISES, INC.,

                                       Debtor.
___________________________________________________

PMF ENTERPRISES, INC.,

                                                Plaintiff - Appellant,

versus

SOUTHCREST BANK,

                                                Defendant - Appellee.

                       ________________________

                Appeal from the United States District Court
                    for the Middle District of Georgia
                      ________________________

                              (June 10, 2016)
                Case: 15-12931       Date Filed: 06/10/2016       Page: 2 of 2

Before MARTIN, JILL PRYOR and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

       Appellant PMF Enterprises, Inc. (“PMF”) appeals the district court’s

judgment affirming a bankruptcy court order overruling PMF’s objection to a proof

of claim filed by Appellee SouthCrest Bank (“SouthCrest”). After carefully

reviewing the record and the parties’ briefs, we affirm the district court’s judgment

based on the district court’s well-reasoned order filed on June 1, 2015.1

       AFFIRMED.

       1
          SouthCrest also raises a challenge to our jurisdiction to hear PMF’s appeal. We have
recognized that our jurisdiction “in bankruptcy proceedings is limited to final decisions of the
district court.” Guy v. Dzikowski (In re Atlas), 210 F.3d 1305, 1307 (11th Cir. 2000); see 28
U.S.C. § 158(d). Because “[a] bankruptcy involves an aggregation of individual controversies,”
an order in a bankruptcy case “may be immediately appealed if [it] finally dispose[s] of discrete
disputes within the larger case.” Bullard v. Blue Hills Bank, 135 S. Ct. 1686, 1692 (2015). We
conclude that the bankruptcy court’s order overruling PMF’s objection was a final decision. It,
in effect, allowed SouthCrest’s proof of claim in the amount filed and left no unresolved dispute
about the merits of SouthCrest’s claim. See, e.g., Linton v. Grow, 183 B.R. 838, 839 (S.D. Ind.
1995) (recognizing that order overruling objection to claim “resolved the issue of whether [the]
claim was accepted” and thus “was a final appealable order”); Allen v. Geneva Steel Co. (In re
Geneva Steel Co.), 260 B.R. 517 (B.A.P. 10th Cir. 2001) (“An order on an objection to a claim is
a final order . . . .”).
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