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Bankruptcy Appellate Panels: The Ninth Circuit's Experience

Gordon Bermant, Judy B. Sloan
January 1, 1989

A description of the Ninth Circuit's early use of panels composed of three bankruptcy judges to hear and decide initial appeals from decisions of the bankruptcy courts. Reprinted from 21 Arizona State University Law Journal 181 (1989).