Automatic Stay

Stay Violator Held Liable for Debtor’s Attorneys’ Fees Incurred to Collect Damages

When a stay violator refused to reimburse debtor’s counsel for fees to stop the stay violation, Judge Rebecca Connelly awarded attorneys’ fees for time spent to collect attorneys’ fees.

Third Circuit Reverses and Dismisses J&J’s ‘Baby Powder’ Chapter 11 Case

Circuit Judge Thomas Ambro prohibits big companies from filing chapter 11 cases absent ‘financial distress.’
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Bankruptcy Judge Reflects on ‘Leverage-Shifting’ In Denying a Nondebtor Injunction

Bankruptcy Judge William Lafferty declined (for now) to halt suits against nondebtor affiliates for lack of an adequate record to justify a preliminary injunction.

It Wasn’t a Good Idea for 3M Corp. to Call Its Multidistrict Litigation a ‘Failure’

District judge remonstrates a solvent parent company for seeking the protections of bankruptcy without filing chapter 11 itself.

Like Willful Violations, Technical Stay Violations Are Void, Not Just Voidable

California bankruptcy judge doubts the Ninth Circuit will adopt the BAP’s dicta by holding that technical stay violations are only voidable, not void.

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