October 30, 2023
9th Circuit , Hawaii ,
A chapter 7 trustee’s obligation to sell can mean that chapter 7 prices don’t fit the ordinary definition of fair market value.
October 27, 2023
Title lenders continue losing battles to take cars away from debtors, but the lenders have yet to plead and prove their best cases.
October 26, 2023
Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez of Houston will hold trials that could result in more nondischargeable debt for Alex Jones.
October 25, 2023
An exculpation clause in a chapter 11 plan protected the owner’s counsel from a malpractice suit.
October 24, 2023
Former Bankruptcy Judge David R. Jones disagreed with a colleague, who had held that a non-voting class is considered as having voted against a plan.
October 23, 2023
10th Circuit , Kansas ,
A district judge, who had been a bankruptcy and BAP judge, narrowly interpreted 28 U.S.C. § 1412 as being inapplicable to pending suits only “related to” the bankruptcy.
October 20, 2023
An alter ego may be of the same ilk as a partnership or agency, so there may be no inconsistency between the Fifth Circuit opinion and the Bartenwerfer concurrence.
October 19, 2023
9th Circuit , Oregon ,
Oregon Supreme Court allows substitution of a bankruptcy trustee as the real party in interest because denial would chiefly punish the debtor’s creditors.
October 18, 2023
Bankruptcy Rule 7070, incorporating Federal Rule 70 along with 28 U.S.C. § 1655, gives bankruptcy courts power to remove liens of record when the lenders don’t do so voluntarily.
October 17, 2023
Supreme Court to decide whether a creditor has standing to object to any provision in a chapter 11 plan, even provisions that don’t affect the creditor.