Rochelle's Daily Wire

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.

Former managers of a corporation can appeal a conversion order in their own right, Tenth Circuit says.

Judge Christopher Klein lays out the requisites for imposing sanctions under Rule 9011 for frivolous filings.

Surprisingly, there is little authority on whether or how a receiver may respond to the filing of an involuntary petition.

The Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion avoids saying whether the dual system of U.S. Trustees and Bankruptcy Administrators is itself unconstitutional.

If there are mutual claims, the Ninth Circuit BAP gives the court discretion not to evaluate a settlement as a sale.

Cutting back on knee-jerk invocation of arbitration, the Supreme Court says that agreements to arbitrate are no more enforceable than ordinary contracts.

The circuits are split on whether a creditors’ committee may intervene as of right in adversary proceedings under Section 1109(b).

The Ninth Circuit equates nonjudicial foreclosure with bankruptcy discharge in terms of the effect on deficiencies following foreclosure.

The decision by the Supreme Court next term in Bartenwerfer will tell us whether debts can be automatically nondischargeable, even when the debtor is without fault.