February 19, 2019
3rd Circuit , Delaware ,
If a suit filed in violation of Barton ends up in bankruptcy court, must the judge still dismiss? The courts are split.
February 18, 2019
The appeals court is attempting to avoid chaos despite ruling that the appointment of Puerto Rico Oversight Board members violated the Appointments Clause of the Constitution.
February 15, 2019
A crisis befalls smaller companies that can’t afford the huge increase in U.S. Trustee fees.
February 15, 2019
An appellate court will decide whether four years of jailing means that civil incarceration has become futile.
February 14, 2019
Per curiam opinion shows that chapter 13 plans aren’t required to be punitive.
February 13, 2019
A non-objecting creditor is bound by a third-party release even if the release may have been improper.
February 12, 2019
The circuits agree, but the lower courts disagree, on the allowance of post-petition attorneys’ fees based on contract.
February 11, 2019
A ‘cert’ petition asks the high court to overrule Dewsnup and allow chapter 7 debtors to strip down or strip off undersecured mortgages.
February 8, 2019
The Seventh Circuit’s opinion interpreting the amendment to Rule 62 is nonprecedential and prompted a dissent, and it may apply only in some states.
February 8, 2019
The date of the closing of a case is not a ‘specified period’ invoking Rule 9006(b)(1) and requiring a debtor to show excusable neglect before amending schedules to claim an exemption.