Judge Kenneth Karas
Bankruptcy court dismissed the Pal Family Trust’s (PFT) Chapter 7 case on Aug. 20, 2012, for failing to file schedules, provide the trustee with tax returns and other documents, and failing to timely cure filing deficiencies. That ruling barred PFT from bringing any bankruptcy case for 180 days absent prior approval. In PFT’s Nov. 2 appeal, district court required PFT’s submission of a letter explaining why appeal should not be dismissed on the merits and/or as moot in light of the 180-day re-filing bar’s expiry. PFT asserted Ticor’s participation in a RICO conspiracy to rob the Pals, and "crimes of perjury" by a county attorney’s office. District court affirmed bankruptcy court’s dismissal of PFT’s case, finding that bankruptcy court did not err in concluding that "[PFT] has failed to perform the duties imposed on [it] under the Bankruptcy Code and that there is no valid purpose to be served by the continuation of the case." District court rejected PFT’s attempt to use its appeal of the bankruptcy court’s ruling in an effort to re-litigate its appeal of a prior state court decision dismissing Ticor in a separate state action which PFT asserted should have been stayed by its Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceeding.
