Views from the Bench: Confirmation Roundtables: Competing Interests in Today’s Chapter 11
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Debt from a Defunct Business Can Help to Qualify for Subchapter V
Part-time self-employment, coupled with debt from a defunct business, qualified the debtor for reorganization under Subchapter V of chapter 11.
Recent Confirmation Developments
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Circuits Are Now Split on the Constitutionality of the 2018 Increase in U.S. Trustee Fees
The Second Circuit split with the Fourth and Fifth Circuits by holding that the increase in fees for the U.S. Trustee system was unconstitutional because it was not imposed simultaneously in the two states with bankruptcy administrators.
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Chapter 13 Debtor May (Sometimes) Contribute to Retirement Plans
A chapter 13 debtor was permitted to make a fraction of the pension contributions permitted by the IRS Code.
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Another Oklahoma Energy Company Emerges from Bankruptcy with Lightened Debt Load
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West Virginia Judge Allows Conversion to Subchapter V After Deadlines Passed
When drafting a statute, Congress cannot ‘think of every single esoteric possibility,’ Judge Mignault says.
Chesapeake Energy Posts Profit after Bankruptcy Exit, Declares Dividend
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Boy Scouts of America Sex Abuse Survivors Claim Censorship, Object to Bankruptcy Exit Plans
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