Rochelle's Daily Wire

Seemingly in conflict with Section 329, a district court decided that a chapter 7 debtor’s attorneys could sue for post-petition fees, even though the firm never disclosed the fee arrangement as required by Section 329 and Rule 2016.

Bound by the Third Circuit’s first LTL decision, the bankruptcy court found that LTL’s rejiggered second filing suffered from the same defect: no immediate financial distress.

A trustee’s commissions can’t be based on a percentage of disbursements to the trustee’s own counsel, so says a New Jersey district judge.

Times are a-changin’ when it comes to setoff against exempt assets.

The bankruptcy judge only gave nondebtor J&J companies a more limited stay in the second LTL chapter 11 case.

In spreading the automatic stay, the bankruptcy court again employed the traditional analysis without recognition that the non-debtors are solvent.

Judge in New Jersey explains why chapter 11 is the best alternative for a large company to deal with mass torts.

Decisions by the U.S. Trustee are subject to judicial review, Judge Kaplan says.

New Jersey judge says that professionals may not be able to limit liability when malpractice is more than mere negligence.

On a question where the courts are split, a New Jersey bankruptcy judge allowed the chapter 13 debtor to retain a $100,000 increase in value when he sold his home.