Rochelle's Daily Wire

Circuit Judge Ambro generously interprets Katz to mean that ratification of the Constitution waived state sovereign immunity broadly for suits to augment a bankrupt estate.

The appeals court reviews the ‘totality of the circumstances’ when government action has elements of both regulatory enforcement and furtherance of the state’s pecuniary interest.

Fourth Circuit expands federal government’s setoff rights under the Treasury Offset Program.

Eligibility for an income-based repayment program is relevant only on the third Brunner test regarding good faith.

Second Circuit insinuates that “undue hardship” and the Brunner test are synonymous.

Even though the debtor was no longer in business, a Medicaid fraud suit was not subject to the automatic stay and thus served as a deterrent to others.

Car owners lost in Fulton but won when a Chicago district judge affirmed and ruled that debtors may avoid judicial liens on impounded cars.

Justices rule that affirmative action is required before withholding property amounts to controlling estate property and results in an automatic stay violation.

Finding a proper exercise of regulatory power isn’t required to invoke the exception to the automatic stay.

The Eleventh Circuit makes federal common law to nail companies for a deceased affiliate’s pension underfunding.