Rochelle's Daily Wire

We focus on ethics two days in a row, given the recent disturbing events in Houston.

Lawyers aren’t guarantors for a client’s misconduct, but they may be sanctioned for a coverup.

Oregon Supreme Court allows substitution of a bankruptcy trustee as the real party in interest because denial would chiefly punish the debtor’s creditors.

The bankruptcy court in Delaware sided with four circuits by directing the U.S. Trustee to give refunds for overpayment of fees that were not uniform throughout the country.

Contesting the election of a chapter 7 trustee isn’t like defending a fee application, which Baker Botts held to be noncompensable.

The RICO suit by Jay Alix Against McKinsey mostly survived a motion to dismiss.

With four circuits in agreement, the Supreme Court isn’t likely to grant cert to rule on whether chapter 11 debtors are entitled to refunds for overpayment of U.S. Trustees fees that were held unconstitutional in Siegel.

With claims for abuse of process not available in a bankruptcy case, the offended party must pursue contempt or other sanctions created by the Bankruptcy Code, a California district judge says.

Section 959(a) doesn’t permit suing a trustee for breach of fiduciary duty outside of bankruptcy court.

The government has filed a petition for certiorari raising the question of whether refunds are the proper remedy following the Supreme Court’s Siegel decision finding that the 2018 increase in U.S. Trustee fees was unconstitutional.