February 13, 2024
Nondischargeability for Sub V corporate debtors is sub judice in the Fifth Circuit.
May 18, 2023
Within the next year, four circuits will have ruled on a split where some lower courts pay chapter 13 trustees and others don’t when dismissal precedes confirmation.
December 11, 2021
Despite Fulton, a Chicago bankruptcy judge rules that the City of Chicago might have violated Section 362(a)(4), (a)(6) or (a)(7) by refusing to release impounded cars immediately after a debtor files a chapter 13 petition.
November 9, 2021
The suggestion that the debtor never won undercut the poker player’s testimony about uncorroborated gambling losses.
March 31, 2021
The statutory basis for permanent relief under today’s chapter 15 was found in former Section 304, which chapter 15 superseded.
March 10, 2021
Bankruptcy judge had tricks up his sleeve to help a debtor who couldn’t afford a lawyer to defend a dischargeability suit.
October 7, 2020
The contemnor shoulders the burden of showing ‘uncertainty’ under the Taggart standard for contempt, Judge Barnes says.
10th Circuit , Colorado ,
September 21, 2018
Judge Barnes won’t allow a chapter 13 debtor’s counsel to be paid at the expense of secured creditors.
December 28, 2017
Chicago judge finds flexibility for granting ‘protection’ claims under Section 543(c)(1).
March 1, 2017
Judge adheres to plain language of agency commentary as though it were a statute.