Rochelle's Daily Wire

Disclosing a lawsuit in the SOFA and discussing the suit with the trustee was no substitute for listing the suit among a debtor’s assets, the Ninth Circuit held.

The bankruptcy court was accorded wide discretion in deciding how to treat a $5.2 million loan that was neither disclosed to nor approved by the bankruptcy court.

Had the purchaser of estate claims offered to waive its own unsecured claim, the sale might have been approved.

Properly structuring a leveraged refinancing in the Second Circuit can avoid attack as a fraudulent transfer despite the Supreme Court’s effort at narrowing the ‘safe harbor.’

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.

Fifth Circuit rejects technical arguments aimed at skirting Section 363(m) and statutory mootness of a sale order.

Federal law allows tribes to determine whether a tribe member’s interest in distributions of gaming revenue will be estate property in bankruptcy, Judge Ridgway says.

Actual notice is required even for contingent liabilities not shown on financial statements, the Sixth Circuit holds.

Jevic didn’t ban structured dismissals when there is no violation of the rules of priority and the alternatives would create greater administrative insolvency.

On an issue where the courts are split, a judge in Washington State says that the debtors lose the post-petition appreciation in the value of estate property when a chapter 13 case converts to chapter 7.