March 19, 2024
The Supreme Court’s narrowing of Rooker-Feldman is showing up in circuit court opinions.
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.
January 19, 2024
District court rules that proceeds from a postpetition personal injury claim are ‘additional disposable income’ that ordinarily goes to creditors in a chapter 13 plan.
January 18, 2024
Taggart doesn’t give more protection to a purchaser of debt than it does to the original creditor, Judge Scott Grossman says.
January 11, 2024
Bankruptcy court disregards SEC regulations defining ‘voting securities’ in deciding whether a Subchapter V debtor has ‘affiliates’ in bankruptcy.
December 11, 2023
Some authority from the Supreme Court suggests that a contempt order without imposition of attorneys’ fees would not be final in a bankruptcy case.
November 14, 2023
Rooker-Feldman is applied narrowly these days and isn’t a substitute for collateral estoppel.
November 10, 2023
Although the Supreme Court will soon rule on the permissibility of nonconsensual releases, Bankruptcy Judge Sigler approved a plan with nondebtor releases under existing Eleventh Circuit precedent.
October 27, 2023
Title lenders continue losing battles to take cars away from debtors, but the lenders have yet to plead and prove their best cases.
October 13, 2023
Bankruptcy Judge Russin declines to follow the Third Circuit and adopts the conclusion of bankruptcy courts holding that Sub S status is estate property.