June 3, 2024
One day apart, bankruptcy judges in the Ninth Circuit disagreed on emotional distress damages for violations of the discharge injunction.
February 1, 2024
A vulgarity directed at the debtor wasn’t a stay violation absent an act designed to collect a debt.
May 24, 2023
An appraisal was rejected entirely as being ‘inherently unreliable’ when it gave the client the value that the client wanted.
December 15, 2022
California bankruptcy judge doubts the Ninth Circuit will adopt the BAP’s dicta by holding that technical stay violations are only voidable, not void.
April 14, 2022
Undisclosed representation of the debtor’s principal resulted in denial of all compensation sought by counsel for the corporate debtor.
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.
March 19, 2019
California judge differs with the Third Circuit regarding the presumption of collateral value flowing from a lender’s proof of secured claim.
March 3, 2016
Non-consumer debts must be related to an existing business or current job.