⚖ Oral Arguments, with Context

The Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel hears three related appeals in Christopher Callaway's bankruptcy. Callaway was involved in a contract dispute with M. Dattani Credit Trust and held interests in San Francisco cannabis ventures. The property involved includes business ownership interests and legal claims, not just physical assets. A bankruptcy estate is the pool of property administered for creditors. The trustee asked for approval to sell estate assets; Callaway asked to have property abandoned back to him. A later motion asked the court to define the scope of abandonment. Those competing requests are behind these related appeals. Section three sixty-three provides for estate-property sales outside the ordinary course of business after notice and a hearing. Under Section five fifty-four B, a court may order abandonment after notice and a hearing if property is burdensome to the estate, or of inconsequential value and benefit to it. Abandonment can return property to the debtor, rather than selling it. A scrivener's error is a clerical or drafting mistake; the speakers dispute clarification versus expansion of an earlier order while an appeal is pending.

In re Callaway (No. 26-1006) — U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit, argued October 15, 2026.