April 22, 2024
A lawyer was found to have committed fraud on the court for filing schedules claiming ownership of property that another court had found not to be the debtor’s property.
April 16, 2024
Sitting en banc, three judges in St. Louis effectively barred bifurcated fee arrangements in the Eastern District of Missouri.
April 9, 2024
The Fifth Circuit dissenter says that the majority set aside findings of fact without showing them to be clearly erroneous.
April 5, 2024
The district court properly reversed and dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction under Barton.
March 25, 2024
The unanimous decision on March 19 by Justice Gorsuch contains language that could be used on both sides of the argument about the validity of equitable mootness.
March 14, 2024
Refusing to withdraw a meritless claim with prejudice contributed to the decision by Judge Jernigan to impose high-six-figure sanctions.
February 27, 2024
Two North Carolina Courts have held within two months that the Bankruptcy Clause doesn’t demand ‘financial distress’ to establish subject matter jurisdiction.
February 20, 2024
Can Section 327(c) be unconstitutional as applied if it deprives shareholders of standing when the estate might be solvent?
3rd Circuit , Delaware ,
February 9, 2024
Absent a provision in the plan to the contrary, creditors aren’t given estate assets recovered after the final plan payment.
9th Circuit , Idaho ,
February 1, 2024
A vulgarity directed at the debtor wasn’t a stay violation absent an act designed to collect a debt.