Rochelle's Daily Wire

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

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

The Supreme Court uses a copyright case to explain why the bankruptcy exception to states’ sovereign immunity is unique under the Constitution.

The exaction for failure to purchase health insurance isn’t an excise tax ‘on a transaction’ under Section 507(a)(8)(E)(i).

Pending adversary proceedings don’t preclude a finding that the chapter 11 case has been ‘fully administered,’ thus allowing entry of a final decree and cutting off further fees owing to the U.S. Trustee Program.

Sovereign immunity won’t prevent the bankruptcy court from extinguishing a state’s easement over a debtor’s property.

High court rules that federal courts may make federal common law only to protect ‘uniquely’ federal interests.

Courts are divided on whether the district court loses jurisdiction to stay proceedings in bankruptcy court after the filing of a notice of appeal.

A debtor with a law degree but only $37,500 in gross annual income was permitted to discharge more than $220,000 in student loans.

Sovereign immunity required dismissal of a suit to recover the value of a gambling license because the suit wasn’t an ancillary exercise of the bankruptcy court’s in rem jurisdiction over a res.