consumer Cases
May 20, 2022
Finally, a circuit court cites Taggart to help a debtor enforce the discharge injunction.
May 19, 2022
The Ninth Circuit equates nonjudicial foreclosure with bankruptcy discharge in terms of the effect on deficiencies following foreclosure.
May 18, 2022
The Affordable Care Act’s ‘individual mandate’ was a tax measured by income, thus giving the IRS a priority tax claim.
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 12, 2022
The Second Circuit says that an initial ‘recipient’ isn’t automatically an initial ‘transferee’ liable for an avoidable transfer under Section 550(a)(1).
May 10, 2022
Over a vigorous dissent, the First Circuit Joins the Ninth Circuit by holding that Section 106(a) waives tribes’ sovereign immunity.
May 4, 2022
The circuits are split on whether an innocent debtor’s liability is automatically nondischargeable when an agent or partner committed fraud.
May 2, 2022
The City of Chicago argued unsuccessfully that liens on cars are statutory because they arise automatically when the car is impounded.
April 22, 2022
Reliance on advice of counsel is not a complete defense to contempt citations.
April 19, 2022
10th Circuit , Colorado ,
Had Congress considered the facts that were before Bankruptcy Judge Elizabeth Brown, it surely would have written the statute differently, this writer believes.