September 13, 2024
Bankruptcy Judge Larson administratively closed a Sub V case after substantial consummation.
March 14, 2024
Refusing to withdraw a meritless claim with prejudice contributed to the decision by Judge Jernigan to impose high-six-figure sanctions.
July 20, 2023
Congress might want to consider closing a dischargeability loophole when it comes to injuries indirectly resulting from commission of a felony.
March 29, 2023
The district court characterized the agreement not as creating a trust but as a device designed to win priority over a prior, perfected security interest.
March 13, 2023
A small business debtor must consent for a case to be converted to Subchapter V, Judge Robert Jones says.
March 2, 2023
Bankruptcy Judge Jernigan interprets the Fifth Circuit’s Highland Capital opinion to mean that gatekeeping protections are not limited to parties entitled to exculpation in the Fifth Circuit.
October 31, 2022
The IRS and Census methods for determining the size of a ‘household’ undercount or overcount economic realities, judge says.
June 14, 2022
Status as a ‘known’ or ‘unknown’ creditor misses the point when a lease was either assumed or rode through the chapter 11 case, Judge Jernigan says.
January 27, 2022
Plan amendments in chapter 13 must come before the debtors make their final payments to the trustee.
January 4, 2022
A lender’s breach of a factoring agreement forced a company into bankruptcy that would have survived otherwise, Judge Jernigan says.