Rochelle's Daily Wire

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May 23, 2022

First Circuit won’t allow artful pleading to avoid the automatic stay in municipal bankruptcies.

May 10, 2022

Over a vigorous dissent, the First Circuit Joins the Ninth Circuit by holding that Section 106(a) waives tribes’ sovereign immunity.

August 16, 2021

Here’s an example of how state law prevents bankruptcy law from being uniform throughout the U.S.

February 4, 2020

Employer contributions to Puerto Rico’s retirement system did not qualify as ‘special revenues,’ with the result that bondholders’ liens were cut off on the filing date.

December 2, 2019

To avoid liability for an underfunded pension plan, the First Circuit describes a structure for investors to employ when buying a sick company

November 12, 2019

Rulings by the First and Second Circuits ensure that recoveries by a Ponzi scheme trustee will be distributed to all victims, not just those who sue on their own.

February 1, 2019

First Circuit reverses, upholding the validity of bondholders’ security interests in $2.9 billion of collateral.

December 14, 2018

In the first opinion at the circuit level, the First Circuit latches onto the lousy drafting of Section 362(c)(3)(A) to end the automatic stay entirely, 30 days after the second filing within a year.

June 12, 2018

Seven weeks apart, two circuits reach diametrically different conclusions about good faith as a defense to an intentional act that violates the discharge injunction.

October 20, 2017

First Circuit narrowly applies equitable mootness in a receivership sale.