October 23, 2020
The Supreme Court is considering whether to review another case defining the safe harbor in Section 546(e).
October 22, 2020
Section 106 wasn’t sufficiently explicit to waive sovereign immunity for Indian tribes, Judge Frank Bailey said in siding with the Sixth Circuit and differing with the Ninth Circuit.
October 21, 2020
Judge Christopher Klein parses the burdens of proof on conversion, dismissal and right to a discharge for an individual in chapter 11.
October 20, 2020
Electing English law upheld, even though no one had any connection with the U.K.
October 19, 2020
Retroactive and nunc pro tunc orders aren’t the same thing, Judge Jaime says. Orders may be retroactive when the power is implied by statute.
October 16, 2020
Bankruptcy Judge Thuma admonishes the parties to settle and not waste money on litigation that should go to sexual abuse victims.
October 15, 2020
Following the answer by the Texas Supreme Court to a certified question, the Fifth Circuit again rules that an inability to discover fraud won’t absolve a transferee from the duty to investigate suspicions of fraud.
October 14, 2020
Judge Grabill finds nothing in Section 1329(d) to preclude extending the duration of a plan if payments were already in default when the CARES Act was enacted on March 27.
October 13, 2020
Lender soon recognized that home foreclosure violated the stay but continued denying liability through seven years of litigation.
October 13, 2020
Supreme Court to resolve a circuit split by deciding whether a change in the status quo must occur before the automatic stay is violated.