Appeals Court Rejects Creditor Effort to Extend Claim Deadline

A creditor in a Florida resident’s bankruptcy failed to convince an appeals court that its claim shouldn’t be thrown out for being filed late.

An entity known as TL90108 LLC can’t equitably toll the time to file a motion to prevent its debt from being discharged even though it learned of the alleged fraud that caused the debt after the deadline, according to a Monday opinion from the US Appeals Court for the Eleventh Circuit.

TL claimed that the debtor, Joseph Ford, committed fraud by conspiring with another person to sell a stolen vehicle to TL to try to reclaim ...