July 21, 2022
Splitting with the Ninth Circuit, the First Circuit holds that claims under the Takings Clause cannot be discharged in a municipal bankruptcy.
October 6, 2020
Foreclosing on cash doesn’t moot an appeal from the order modifying the automatic stay as to cash.
February 5, 2020
First Circuit rules that an order finding a stay violation must be appealed before the bankruptcy court grants an award of attorneys’ fees.
May 1, 2019
Even if a debtor has committed fraud, at least three creditors still must join an involuntary petition if the debtor has 12 or more creditors.
August 10, 2018
Puerto Rico’s toll road bonds don’t have statutory liens, circuit court rules.
January 18, 2018
Waiving the automatic stay and immediately closing a sale does not make Section 363(m) inapplicable.
January 16, 2018
First Circuit follows the Fourth Circuit’s Lubrizol and rejects the Seventh Circuit’s Sunbeam.
February 26, 2016
Minor dispute as to amount bars using a claim for filing an involuntary petition.