Erling Calkins v. Southern California Conference

FILED

NOT FOR PUBLICATION

SEP 22 2021

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

In re: ERLING S. CALKINS; ELAINE S. No. 20-60033

CALKINS,

BAP No. 19-1156 Debtors,

------------------------------ MEMORANDUM*

ERLING S. CALKINS,

Appellant,

v.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY

ADVENTISTS, Trustee,

Appellee.

Appeal from the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel Spraker, Taylor, and Faris, Bankruptcy Judges, Presiding

Submitted September 21, 2021**

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. San Francisco, California

Before: FERNANDEZ, SILVERMAN, and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Erling S. Calkins appeals pro se from the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel’s

decision affirming the bankruptcy court’s order confirming an arbitration award

and enforcing Calkins’ 2016 settlement with the Southern California Conference of

Seventh-Day Adventists (“SCC”). We affirm.

The bankruptcy court properly confirmed the arbitration award because

Calkins did not show there were grounds for…