Court Rules Bankruptcy Court Should Have Deferred to IRS’s Later-Filed—but First Jurisdictionally Proper—District Court Action
In In re Goebel, No. 25-103 (2d Cir. July 28, 2026), the Second Circuit held that a Chapter 7 debtor lacked Article III standing to obtain a determination of the dischargeability of federal income-tax debts where, at the time she filed her adversary complaint, the IRS had not taken any concrete action indicating that it intended to assert that the debts were nondischargeable.
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