Rochelle's Daily Wire

The Delaware district court affirmed Bankruptcy Judge Thomas Horan, who ruled that a creditor cannot sue a chapter 15 debtor in bankruptcy court on a prebankruptcy claim.

Alter ego claims belong to the creditor, not to the bankrupt estate.

Chicago’s Bankruptcy Judge Timothy Barnes explained eight years ago why bankruptcy stays do not require personal jurisdiction, unlike injunctions in receiverships.

Fifth Circuit says that the court must have obtained personal jurisdiction over a third party in a receivership to enforce an injunction. Is the same true for the automatic stay and the discharge injunction in bankruptcy? Is there no injunction before there’s personal jurisdiction?

A Supreme Court nonbankruptcy decision means there is no right to a jury trial in the claims-allowance process in bankruptcy.

To revisit denial of a lift-stay motion, the prior order denying modification of the stay isn’t required to say ‘without prejudice.’

Tyler was applied retroactively because the debtor’s efforts to set aside a tax foreclosure judgment were ‘in the pipeline’ when bankruptcy began.

The ‘attenuated possibility of insolvency’ in the future does not establish ‘financial distress,’ Circuit Judge Ambro said, interpreting his own prior opinion.

Seeking attorneys’ fees from the debtor for a postpetition civil rights violation does not by itself make a postpetition lawsuit subject to the automatic stay.

Bankruptcy Judge Paul Black denied a motion to compel arbitration but didn’t decide whether he would certify a class.