Rochelle's Daily Wire

Courts are continuing to grapple with bifurcated fee arrangements allowing chapter 7 debtors to pay the entire fee after filing.

Debts acquired from running a business do not qualify someone for subchapter V of chapter 11 if the business has terminated and the assets are gone, according to Judge Cynthia Norton.

An oversecured lender may not be entitled to a fee allowance from the estate that a private client might be willing to pay.

Reclamation creditors no longer have liens or administrative claims if a secured lender sucks up all the value in reclaimed goods.

In the Bankruptcy Rules, a claim objection isn’t treated like a motion for all purposes, the Eighth Circuit says.

Global warming claims were discharged even though the chapter 11 plan did not discharge claims under environmental laws.

Eighth Circuit BAP crafts a preference rule protecting lenders in out-of-court workouts.

As long as the rate is legal under state law, considerations of equity will not allow a court to disallow default interest to an oversecured creditor under Section 506(b).

Appeals court had sympathy for the debtor by disallowing part but not all of a judgment for receipt of a fraudulent transfer with ‘actual intent.’

Eighth Circuit may have rejected blanket disallowance of exemptions for retirement accounts transferred in divorce.