IN RE WILSHIRE COURTYARD

No. 11-60065.

729 F.3d 1279 (2013)

In re WILSHIRE COURTYARD, Debtor, Wilshire Courtyard; Jerome H. Snyder Group I, Ltd.; Lewis P. Geyser Revocable Trust; Geyser Children's Trust, FBO Jennifer Geyser, Lewis P. Geyser, Trustee; Wendy K. Snyder; Jerome H. Snyder; Geyser Children's Trust, FBO Daniel Geyser, Lewis P. Geyser, Trustee; Russell & Ruth Kubovec, Deceased, Kubovec Family Trust, Rita Farmer, Trustee; William N. Snyder; Joan Snyder; Geyser Children's Trust, FBO Douglas Geyser, Lewis P. Geyser, Trustee; Lon J. Snyder; Snyder Children's Trust, FBO William N. Snyder, Lewis P. Geyser, Trustee, Appellants, v. California Franchise Tax Board, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 10, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy T. Englert, Jr. (argued), Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck, Untereiner & Sauber LLP, Washington, D.C.; Daniel L. Geyser , McKool Smith, P.C., Dallas, TX; David Gould , Gould & Gould, LLP, Calabasas, CA; Lewis R. Landau , Calabasas, CA; Lewis P. Geyser , Solvang, CA, for Appellants.

Bonnie Holcomb (argued) and Marta L. Smith , Deputy Attorneys General; W. Dean Freeman , Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Paul D. Gifford , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Kamala D. Harris , Attorney General, Los Angeles, CA, for Appellee.

Howard E. Abrams , Atlanta, GA, for Amicus Curiae.

Before: DOROTHY W. NELSON and RICHARD A. PAEZ Circuit Judges, and SUZANNE B. CONLON, District Judge.


OPINION

PAEZ, Circuit Judge:

Spanning an entire city block on the "Miracle Mile" portion of Wilshire Boulevard in central Los Angeles are two commercial buildings at the center of a fifteen-year-old bankruptcy proceeding, eleven-year-old state tax dispute, and the present case about the scope of a bankruptcy court's post-confirmation subject matter jurisdiction. The buildings were owned by a California general partnership, Wilshire Courtyard, which filed...

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