Rochelle's Daily Wire

The Ninth Circuit again questions the Supreme Court’s ‘atextual’ analysis of Section 523(a)(7).

Splitting with the Ninth Circuit, the First Circuit holds that claims under the Takings Clause cannot be discharged in a municipal bankruptcy.

Circuit courts are split 4/3 on their interpretation of Supreme Court precedent holding that regularly conducted mortgage foreclosures are immune from fraudulent transfer attack.

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.

The Affordable Care Act’s ‘individual mandate’ was a tax measured by income, thus giving the IRS a priority tax claim.

Over a dissent, the Eleventh Circuit held that a 1995 chapter 11 plan discharged the liability of ‘related persons’ to pay health care benefits when a coal producer defaulted on the obligation in 2016.

To settle with a trustee, a creditor is not required to volunteer damaging information.

The City of Chicago argued unsuccessfully that liens on cars are statutory because they arise automatically when the car is impounded.

Circuit refuses to make an exception for trustees regarding the judge-made doctrine of in pari delicto.

Authorities are split on whether avoidance actions are estate property that can be sold or can only be prosecuted by the trustee.