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The Financial Standards Accounting Board's proposal to start loss reserves when a loan is originated is antithetical to banks making localized financial decisions.

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The Supreme Court has agreed to hear its first bankruptcy case of the current term.     On November 6, the Court granted certiorari in  Case No. 15-145, Husky Electronic, Inc. v.

Section 109(a) of the Bankruptcy Code requires debtors to either reside or have a domicile, place of business, or property in the United States.  A split of authority exists whether a foreign debtor seeking recognition of its foreign proceeding under

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee will appear in a federal courtroom Monday to ask a judge to formally wind down its bankruptcy, which has dragged out over nearly five years and provoked bitter legal battles that went

   

Coal producer Walter Energy, Inc.

After sorting through conflicting precedents, Judge Craig Gargotta has ruled that a chapter 7 debtor who owned a homestead property on the date of bankruptcy and claimed the property as exempt did not lose the exemption when the property was sold and

Paul E. Harner has joined law firm Ballard Spahr as a partner with the restructuring practice. Mr.