Rochelle's Daily Wire

The Ninth Circuit BAP interprets circuit authority as giving a chapter 13 debtor the absolute right to dismiss.

Adequate assurance of future performance may not be required if the debtor has already cured the breach of lease, the Ninth Circuit says.

Is doubt about whether the debtor has an interest in property sufficient to invoke Taggart and bar the finding of a willful stay violation?

Absent a good excuse for misfiling a complaint, the bankruptcy court properly dismissed a complaint as untimely.

Not reaching the merits, the Ninth Circuit nonetheless vacated a BAP decision because the case became moot during the appeal.

Dissenter in the Ninth Circuit would have held that unimpaired creditors of a solvent debtor get no interest whatsoever, although impaired creditors are entitled to interest.

After a technical correction by Congress, now only affiliates of reporting companies are excluded from Subchapter V of chapter 11.

The Ninth Circuit again questions the Supreme Court’s ‘atextual’ analysis of Section 523(a)(7).

The lender’s failure to demand reaffirmation before discharge in chapter 7 barred enforcement of a default based on the filing of bankruptcy.

On an issue where the courts are split, a district judge in Washington State holds that the debtors lose the post-petition appreciation in the value of estate property when a chapter 13 case converts to chapter 7.