December 8, 2022
Will the Supreme Court add words to Section 523(a)(2)(A) to yield a result that the justices find more palatable?
November 11, 2022
Subsequent transferees of Madoff’s fraudulent transfers won’t have an interlocutory appeal from denial of their motions to dismiss.
November 1, 2022
District judge holds that the safe harbor in Section 546(e) applies to lawsuits by foreign liquidators aiming to avoid transactions abroad under foreign law.
2nd Circuit , New York ,
October 3, 2022
Texas judge rules in favor of the debtor on an issue similar to the question coming before the Supreme Court in Bartenwerfer.
July 27, 2022
An adverse inference sanction for spoliation of evidence is reviewed for abuse of discretion by the district court after withdrawal of the reference.
8th Circuit , Minnesota ,
July 19, 2022
Tenth Circuit insinuates that a debtor may have a nondischargeable debt even if the debtor did not personally benefit from fraud.
May 17, 2022
The decision by the Supreme Court next term in Bartenwerfer will tell us whether debts can be automatically nondischargeable, even when the debtor is without fault.
May 6, 2022
To settle with a trustee, a creditor is not required to volunteer damaging information.
9th Circuit , Montana ,
April 19, 2022
Had Congress considered the facts that were before Bankruptcy Judge Elizabeth Brown, it surely would have written the statute differently, this writer believes.
10th Circuit , Colorado ,
February 23, 2022
Judge Sontchi set aside a prior order preventing the trustee from controlling litigation brought in the trustee’s name.
3rd Circuit , Delaware ,