Olsen v. 419 Apartment Corp.

08-5877-bk In Re: Ingrid Olsen UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT SUMMARY ORDER Rulings by summary order do not have precedential effect. Citation to summary orders filed after January 1, 2007, is permitted and is governed by this court’s Local Rule 32.1 and Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 32.1. In a brief or other paper in which a litigant cites a summary order, in each paragraph in which a citation appears, at least one citation must either be to the Federal Appendix or be accompanied by the notation: “(summary order).” A party citing a summary order must serve a copy of that summary order together with the paper in which the summary order is cited on any party not represented by counsel unless the summary order is available in an electronic database which is publicly accessible without payment of fee (such as the database available at http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/). If no copy is served by reason of the availability of the order on such a database, the citation must include reference to that database and the docket number of the case in which the order was entered. At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, held at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse, 500 Pearl Street, in the City of New York, on the twenty-first day of December two thousand and nine. PRESENT: GUIDO CALABRESI, JOSÉ A. CABRANES, BARRINGTON D. PARKER, Circuit Judges. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -x IN RE : INGRID OLSEN , Debtor, REYNOLD OLSEN , Appellant, v. No. 08-5877-bk 419 APARTMENT CORPORATION , 1 Appellee.* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -x FOR APPELLANT: REYNOLD OLSEN , pro se, New York, NY FOR APPELLEE: BRUCE H. WIENER, Wurshaw Burstein Cohen Schlesinger & Kuh, LLP, New York, NY Appeal from a judgment of the United States District for the Southern District of New York (Richard J. Sullivan, Judge). UPON CONSIDERATION WHEREOF, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the judgment of the District Court is AFFIRMED. Appellant Reynold Olsen (“Olsen”) appeals from a judgment of the District Court entered September 22, 2008 which affirmed two decisions of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (James M. Peck, Judge), which, in turn, denied both (1) Olsen’s motion to vacate a settlement agreement between appellee 419 Apartment Corporation and Olsen’s wife, Ingrid Olsen, and (2) Olsen’s motion for reconsideration of that decision. On appeal, Olsen makes a number of arguments including that (1) the Bankruptcy Court misapplied Fed. R. Bankr. P. 9024, (2) the Bankruptcy Court erred by ruling sua sponte that his motions were untimely under 11 U.S.C. § 1144 , and (3) that the proceedings in Ingrid Olsen’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, to the extent they affected Olsen’s property, violated the automatic stay of Olsen’s separate Chapter 13 bankruptcy case. We assume the parties’ familiarity with the remaining factual and procedural history of the case. We find no error in the District Court’s thorough and careful Memorandum and Order entered September 19, 2008, and we affirm the judgment substantially for the reasons stated therein. See In re Olsen, No. 06 Civ. 4004 (RJS), 2008 WL 4298586 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 19, 2008). We further note that Olsen’s argument that the Bankruptcy Court proceedings somehow violated the automatic stay in his Chapter 13 bankruptcy case, although not addressed by the District Court, is without merit. The docket of Olsen’s Chapter 13 case reflects that in January 2004 the Bankruptcy Court ordered that the automatic stay be completely vacated and lifted with respect to 419 Apartment Corporation. See Docket Entry 35, In re Olsen, 03-bk-41454 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. Jan. 29, 2004). * The Clerk of Court is directed to amend the official caption to conform to the listing of the parties stated above. 2 CONCLUSION We have considered all of appellant’s arguments and find them to be without merit. For the foregoing reasons, the judgment of the District Court is AFFIRMED. FOR THE COURT, Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe, Clerk of Court By ______________________________ 3