July 25, 2019
Fifth Circuit permits bar orders in receiverships while blocking nonconsensual, third-party releases in chapter 11 plans.
July 24, 2019
Business judgment rule failed to protect directors of a Georgia bank for approving bad loans.
July 23, 2019
3rd Circuit , Delaware ,
The Pacor test for ‘related to’ jurisdiction isn’t so broad when it comes to indemnification agreements.
July 22, 2019
Judge Collins discharges all but $23,900 among nine student loans totaling $154,000.
July 19, 2019
Seventh Circuit reverses and imposes the U.S. Trustee fee on ‘revolver sweeps,’ but Judge Huennekens rules that the fee increase violates two clauses in the Constitution.
July 18, 2019
To be nondischargeable, a stipulated judgment must lay out facts showing the debt was incurred by false representation or actual fraud.
July 17, 2019
Caselaw on disallowance of default interest is “murky,” Chief Judge Norton says.
July 16, 2019
9th Circuit , Idaho ,
Idaho judge seems to disagree with the Second Circuit’s ruling that a chapter 12 debtor can surrender less than all of the collateral to confirm a plan.
July 15, 2019
The Ninth Circuit BAP follows a Pennsylvania bankruptcy court decision with facts more similar than those in Ninth Circuit precedent.
July 12, 2019
Long Island’s Judge Grossman follows the Third Circuit by finding limitations on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine.