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October 21, 2021

Disclosing a lawsuit in the SOFA and discussing the suit with the trustee was no substitute for listing the suit among a debtor’s assets, the Ninth Circuit held.

October 14, 2021

Pennsylvania’s Judge Conway hints that failure to stop proceedings after bankruptcy can be an automatic stay violation, even after Fulton.

October 5, 2021

An irrevocable surety bond isn’t executory because it gives the bonding company no further obligations to the debtor.

October 4, 2021

The Iqbal and Twombly standards don’t apply to involuntary petitioners who are required to use Official Form 105.

October 1, 2021

There can be no question about whether the beneficiary of a surety bond has been ‘paid in full’ before the surety has subrogation rights.

September 30, 2021

A creditor can’t elect a trustee to pick its adversary in a lawsuit, Bankruptcy Judge Gunn says.

September 29, 2021

Confirming a chapter 13 plan on the assumption that a claim was entitled to priority didn’t bar the debtors from later objecting to the priority of the claim.

September 27, 2021

Newly applicable law permitted a chapter 13 debtor to cram down a lien that the debtor previously had considered to be valid.

September 24, 2021

Had the purchaser of estate claims offered to waive its own unsecured claim, the sale might have been approved.

September 22, 2021

The Third Circuit made more rules to decide whether an insurance company can be insulated from failure-to-warn claims by the channeling injunction in a chapter 11 ‘asbestos’ plan.