Yellowstone Club bankruptcy defendant seeks new judge
Real estate giant Tim Blixseth, founder of Montana's Yellowstone Club, acting as his own attorney, is seeking to disqualify a bankruptcy judge in the ongoing case.
Real estate giant Tim Blixseth, founder of Montana's Yellowstone Club, acting as his own attorney, is seeking to disqualify a bankruptcy judge in the ongoing case.
Blixesth, who previously owned the multi-million dollar private ski resort, has been mired in legal trouble since the organization's bankruptcy filing in 2009.
"I am strictly calling attention to what actually happened - the facts," Blixseth told Bloomberg. "He didn't allow my due process, Fifth Amendment rights. That doesn't make him a good guy or a bad guy. He's just wrong."
The move to oust Judge Ralph Kirscher comes after Blixseth lost a pivotal appeal in the case last month, the news source says. The ruling passed control of the $115 million property from his ex-wife Edna Blixseth to Boston-based CrossHarbor Capital.
Blixseth says the judge was biased in favor of his ex-wife and conducted inappropriate communications with his legal advisers, Bloomberg reports.
U.S. District Judge Samuel Haddon gave support to the claim, writing in an October ruling that Kirscher did not give public notice before approving the deal.
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