Rochelle's Daily Wire

Res judicata can bar a claim in a later lawsuit if it wasn’t raised in bankruptcy court, given a bankruptcy court’s broad jurisdiction.

Reversing the bankruptcy court, a district judge ruled that a company may file in chapter 7 even when there are no operations and no assets aside from insurance.

Fifth Circuit finds ‘related to’ jurisdiction in a lawsuit between two third parties who were neither debtors nor creditors.

An adverse inference sanction for spoliation of evidence is reviewed for abuse of discretion by the district court after withdrawal of the reference.

Fifth Circuit holds that 28 U.S.C. § 158 requires district judges or BAPs to decide bankruptcy appeals.

The Supreme Court now has two bankruptcy cases on the calendar for argument in the term to begin in October.

BAP doesn’t allow debtors to appeal when a trustee sells their home out from underneath them in a short sale.

Cutting back on knee-jerk invocation of arbitration, the Supreme Court says that agreements to arbitrate are no more enforceable than ordinary contracts.

To establish constitutional standing to appeal, an appellant must seek to overturn the order below, the Sixth Circuit BAP says.

This month, two circuits found no ‘related to’ bankruptcy jurisdiction for climate-change lawsuits against energy companies.