Bankruptcy Appellate Panel
Panel for review of appeals from U.S. district court rulings
A Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (abbreviated BAP) is authorized by 28 U.S.C. § 158(b) to hear, with the consent of all parties, appeals from the decisions of the United States bankruptcy courts in their district that otherwise would be heard by district courts, but only in those districts in which the district judges authorize appeals to BAPs. BAPs typically sit as three-judge panels composed of bankruptcy judges appointed from the circuit's districts, with the restriction that no judge may participate in an appeal arising from that judge's own district.
Not all of the federal judicial circuits have convened a BAP. As of 2011, only the First, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits had convened these panels.
History
The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 permitted federal judicial circuits to establish Bankruptcy Appellate Panels to hear appeals from the bankruptcy courts. Those circuits which chose not to establish panels would have bankruptcy appeals heard by the United States district courts.
The first circuits to establish Bankruptcy Appellate Panels were the Ninth Circuit (in 1979) and the First Circuit (in 1980). The aftermath of the landmark Northern Pipeline Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. case in 1982 had different effects on the two circuits.
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