Case timeline

1. Jun 222026
   Hearings: Non-op plaintiffs take GUC Trustee dispute to District Court

   Alpine 2022 Non-Op, Alpine Non-Op LLC, Goldston Oil, Raptor TRex, Tauber Exploration & Production, and Tauber Interests filed a first amended notice of appeal from rulings in Adversary Proceeding No. 23-03244, naming Paul Jansen, as GUC Trustee and successor to HB2 Origination, and Ageron Energy II as appellees. The appellants elected to have the appeal heard by the U.S. District Court, and the docket set the appellant designation deadline for July 6, 2026, under the Amended Notice of Appeal.

   The appeal follows the court’s June 9 order converting the rulings on the plaintiffs’ claims into a Rule 54(b) final judgment for appeal purposes while leaving the GUC Trustee’s counterclaims abated pending the appeal, as reflected in the Rule 54(b) certification order. The practical significance is that a live post-confirmation litigation asset/liability dispute now shifts to appellate review, with the trustee’s remaining counterclaims paused rather than litigated in parallel.

   Sources and provenanceJune 22, 2026
2. May 15
   Hearings: GUC Trustee pushes to preserve Non-Op judgment and fees on appeal

   Paul Jansen, as GUC Trustee, now has a May 15 hearing on his Rule 9023 motion to amend the March 24 Non-Op judgment, making the trigger more than a routine calendar update source filing. The underlying judgment avoided any equitable interest held by Alpine 2022 Non-Op and related plaintiffs in the Exhibit A properties, denied all plaintiffs' claims against the Trustee, awarded costs, and set an April 15 deadline for fee and cost requests source filing. The memorandum opinion treated the disputed oil-and-gas property interests and derivative proceeds as estate property and rejected the plaintiffs' trust theories source filing.

   The Trustee's motion asks the court to certify the judgment as final only as to the plaintiffs' claims under Rule 7054, preserve the Trustee's still-abated counterclaims, and memorialize or clarify a prior fee award tied to the bad-faith Jacobs Affidavit, including $105,231 previously sought source filing. That matters because Alpine 2022 Non-Op filed a notice of appeal on April 6; the hearing will determine whether the appeal proceeds on a clean final-order record while estate counterclaims and fee recovery remain alive source filing.

   Sources and provenanceMay 15, 2026