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January 9, 2024

Baltimore district judge applies the Fourth Circuit’s ‘substantial and unanticipated’ test to modifications of chapter 11 plans.

December 20, 2023

The ‘new value’ offered by old equity in a chapter 11 plan was insufficient because it was only a small fraction of claims and because the dividend to creditors was also small.

November 2, 2021

If a loan benefits both a debtor and someone else, the loan still may be included in counting whether the debt “arose from the commercial or business activities of the debtor.”

July 6, 2021

Judge Harner does the best she can to ease the burden imposed on a debtor by student loans.

June 4, 2021

Decision by Bankruptcy Judge Michelle Harner demonstrates the flaw in the Fourth Circuit’s rule requiring parallel proceedings in bankruptcy court and in arbitration when disputes are both core and non-core.

March 24, 2021

Only individuals in subchapter V of chapter 11 are barred from discharging debts found to be nondischargeable under Section 523(a).

July 13, 2020

The SBRA can be used to extinguish a creditors’ committee previously appointed in a ‘traditional’ chapter 11 case.

October 17, 2019

A creditor without knowledge of bankruptcy isn’t always entitled to file a late claim in chapters 7, 12, and 13, Judge Harner says.

September 28, 2018

The addition of Section 362(b)(3) is held not to affect the ‘freeze rule’ with regard to lapsing security interests.
The addition of Section 362(b)(3) is held not to affect the ‘freeze rule’ with regard to lapsing security interests.