February 22, 2024
If a confirmation order is found not to be equitably moot on appeal, the debtor can’t raise equitable mootness again on remand.
May 2, 2023
A landlord who terminates a lease isn’t entitled to a claim for future rent, at least in Florida, according to a district judge who affirmed Bankruptcy Judge Isicoff.
November 24, 2021
The transfer of title in a real estate foreclosure is not a transfer on account of an antecedent debt and therefore can’t be a preference, at least in Florida.
June 21, 2021
Local or state bar groups should work up standard-form retainer agreements and disclosures to facilitate bifurcated fee arrangements.
October 29, 2019
A subsequent transferee may be entitled to challenge a fraudulent transfer judgment from a prior suit against the initial transferee.
June 18, 2018
Courts are split on the interpretation of BAPCPA’s treatment of automatically rejected leases in chapter 7.
May 16, 2018
‘Exhaustion’ is not required before compelling the IRS to return funds taken in violation of discharge.
July 31, 2017
Decisions to surrender aren’t made in ‘perpetuity,’ Judge Isicoff holds.
March 27, 2017
Prohibition on avoidance actions in chapter 15 only bars suits under Bankruptcy Code powers.
March 3, 2016
Gutsy Judge Laurel Isicoff disagrees with district and bankruptcy judges in her district.