Rochelle's Daily Wire

Discovery sanctions are dischargeable under Section 523(a)(7), even when incorporated into a bar disciplinary suspension.

Global warming claims were discharged even though the chapter 11 plan did not discharge claims under environmental laws.

A mistake by a lawyer isn’t “deliberate” and therefore can’t be a judicial admission.

ABI Consumer Commission recommended that ‘comfort orders’ be obtained through motion practice, not adversary proceedings.

Filing with PACER should be left to the experts, by which we mean paralegals.

Tortious or fraudulent conduct needn’t be shown to hold a corporate employee liable for violating the automatic stay.

Circuit says it’s easy to show reasonable reliance on a false financial statement.

Environmental fines are discharged in chapter 11 because they do not result from pecuniary loss.

Taggart left open the question of whether the ‘no objectively reasonable basis’ standard for discharge violations also applies to contempt of the automatic stay.

Discharge was violated, but sanctions are likely out of reach.