March 22, 2022
Reversing the bankruptcy court, the district court decided that a local rule did not bar bifurcated fee arrangements altogether.
March 3, 2022
No more informal ‘no-look’ fees in the courtroom of Bankruptcy Judge Robert Grossman.
February 15, 2022
District judge in Idaho finds no ambiguity in a statute that doesn’t explicitly say whether a chapter 13 trustee is paid if the case is dismissed before confirmation.
February 3, 2022
A successful outcome does not entitle an attorney to be paid for performing administrative services delegated to the trustee.
January 28, 2022
A chapter 13 trustee is not a federal employee for the purposes of the Federal Tort Claims Act.
January 20, 2022
On an issue the Supreme Court will decide this spring, the Eleventh Circuit broke the tie among the circuits by finding no unconstitutional lack of uniformity when the 2018 increase in U.S. Trustee fees was not immediately applicable in two states with Bankruptcy Administrators.
January 12, 2022
The Supreme Court granted certiorari to decide whether the 2018 increase in U.S. Trustee fees violated the Bankruptcy Clause because it was not immediately applicable in two states with Bankruptcy Administrators.
December 30, 2021
New Jersey judge says that professionals may not be able to limit liability when malpractice is more than mere negligence.
December 29, 2021
The possibility that interim compensation allowances can be disgorged means that counsel won’t have an undue advantage over other administrative creditors, Judge Cleary says.
December 13, 2021
District judge in Colorado sides with the majority and doesn’t allow a chapter 13 trustee to be paid if dismissal occurs before plan confirmation.
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