business Cases
June 19, 2023
At least where nondebtor releases are prohibited, and if Delaware law controls, a suit against an alter ego doesn’t violate the discharge injunction, the Ninth Circuit BAP says.
June 16, 2023
The Supreme Court resolved a split of circuits in an opinion that could give support to the notion that arbitration agreements are not enforceable in bankruptcy.
June 14, 2023
3rd Circuit , Delaware ,
Bankruptcy Judge Shannon says that the liquidating trust was not debtor’s counsel’s former client.
June 13, 2023
Indianapolis Bankruptcy Judge Jeffrey Graham says that the bankruptcy court cannot become “another court of general jurisdiction.”
June 5, 2023
A judge sitting in a proper venue may transfer venue to a district that was improper originally.
June 1, 2023
Eighth Circuit BAP ‘at a minimum’ requires substantial changes in financial condition for a debtor to modify a confirmed chapter 12 plan.
May 31, 2023
The concurring opinion, which is really a dissent, urges the Supreme Court to grant certiorari and resolve the split of circuits on nondebtor releases.
May 30, 2023
The high court’s ruling on the Takings Clause also seems to mean that real estate tax foreclosures can be avoided as constructively fraudulent transfers.
May 26, 2023
A two-story commercial condominium wasn’t ‘single asset real estate,’ Judge Mastando holds.
May 24, 2023
An appraisal was rejected entirely as being ‘inherently unreliable’ when it gave the client the value that the client wanted.