Rochelle's Daily Wire

Michigan judges disagree about the court’s ability to consider Social Security benefits in deciding whether a chapter plan was proposed in good faith.

Courts are split on whether creditors in chapter 13 are entitled to the postpetition appreciation in a debtor’s property.

Filing a chapter 11 petition to obtain an automatic 60-day extension of a closing date is not a bad faith filing, Judge Bernstein says.

A later First Circuit BAP panel should follow BAP authority unless the prior opinion seems “dead wrong.”

The Supreme Court’s Merit Management opinion fails to persuade the Second Circuit to change the result in Tribune.

Third Circuit emphasizes the limitation of nonconsensual, third-party releases to ‘exceptional’ cases.

Saying she is in the minority in her district, a new Delaware judge ruled that allowing creditors to opt out won’t permit a plan to impose nonconsensual, third-party releases.

Fifth Circuit upholds its prior ruling that disallowing part of a claim under the Bankruptcy Code does not render the claim ‘impaired’ to allow voting on a chapter 11 plan.

Chapter 13 forces judges to micromanage the lives of debtors.

Negotiating a prepackaged asbestos plan and having been paid by the debtor does not disqualify a future claimants’ representative under the disinterestedness standard.