Rochelle's Daily Wire

As a unit of the district courts, bankruptcy courts are required to grant post-judgment interest in adversary proceedings under 28 U.S.C. § 1961(a).

The insured’s bankruptcy can allow other claimants to recover a preference from one claimant who drew down the policy limit.

Consolidating student loans after filing creates a post-petition debt that can’t be discharged without filing bankruptcy again.

Courts aren’t fully in agreement, but most hold that non-purchase money debt service on a car isn’t an ‘ownership cost’ deducted from current monthly income to arrive at disposable income in chapter 13.

A preference opinion from Houston counsels creditors to be cautious when they are expecting payment from insurance.

As long as the student loan is owing to the government, the Fifth Circuit holds that the government bar date applies even when the servicer is a private company.

Bankruptcy courts can have subject matter jurisdiction to approve settlements between nondebtors.

Seeking attorneys’ fees from the debtor did not by itself make a postpetition lawsuit subject to the automatic stay.

The Fifth Circuit avoided deciding whether approval of breakup fees is judged by the more lenient Section 363(b) or the more exacting standard for administrative expenses under Section 503(b).

The Fifth Circuit declined to follow the Ninth Circuit in questioning ‘person aggrieved’ as being inconsistent with recent Supreme Court authority.