August 26, 2021
Although disqualified and removed for an undisclosed conflict, the trustee was not removed in all other cases.
August 25, 2021
The oversight of a distribution by a chapter 7 trustee (and the attendant expense) isn’t required when a debtor liquidates the assets in Subchapter V of chapter 11.
July 12, 2021
Increasingly, courts are allowing defunct corporations to proceed under the SBRA while individual owners of defunct businesses aren’t being treated as small business debtors in chapter 11.
June 1, 2021
Part-time self-employment, coupled with debt from a defunct business, qualified the debtor for reorganization under Subchapter V of chapter 11.
May 19, 2021
When drafting a statute, Congress cannot ‘think of every single esoteric possibility,’ Judge Mignault says.
May 10, 2021
Judge Colton decided that class claims aren’t prohibited in Subchapter V cases but didn’t allow a class claim in the case before her.
April 27, 2021
Utah’s Judge Thurman says that a corporation liquidating its remaining assets is engaged in business ‘activities’ and is therefore eligible for Subchapter V.
10th Circuit , Utah ,
April 23, 2021
Apartment buildings are single asset real estate, but hotels aren’t, says Orlando’s Bankruptcy Judge Karen Jennemann.
April 21, 2021
A fast-food worker can (conceivably) qualify as a small business debtor under Subchapter V, according to Bankruptcy Judge Thomas B. McNamara.
10th Circuit , Colorado ,
March 24, 2021
Only individuals in subchapter V of chapter 11 are barred from discharging debts found to be nondischargeable under Section 523(a).
4th Circuit , Maryland ,