April 3, 2019
Judges Pappas and Teel permit avoidance actions for small amounts to be prosecuted in the debtors’ bankruptcy courts.
April 2, 2019
Congress may have intended to preclude ‘stay and pay,’ but it didn’t succeed.
April 1, 2019
Former NFL players with neurological impairment can file bankruptcy and exempt payments under league’s concussion settlement.
March 29, 2019
First Circuit interprets chapter 9 and PROMESA to permit but not compel payments to special revenue bondholders during debt arrangement proceedings.
March 28, 2019
First Circuit bars use of declaratory judgments restricting Puerto Rico’s use of tax revenues.
March 27, 2019
Curiously, a Ninth Circuit panel imposed significant pleading requirements for FCRA complaints but only issued a nonprecedential opinion.
March 26, 2019
A failure to distinguish between res judicata and collateral estoppel turned out to be costly.
March 25, 2019
First Circuit finds no exceptions to the automatic stay under PROMESA subjecting Puerto Rico to ‘ordinary course’ litigation.
March 22, 2019
New York district judge is the most recent court to uphold an injunction implementing a $7.2 billion Madoff settlement.
March 21, 2019
A mortgage recorded more than 30 days after closing resulted in a transfer within the preference window.