business Cases
August 13, 2024
In practical effect, the Second Circuit’s opinion means that a chapter 7 debtor may never appeal denial of a motion to dismiss a petition.
August 12, 2024
A Supreme Court nonbankruptcy decision means there is no right to a jury trial in the claims-allowance process in bankruptcy.
August 9, 2024
The tide is turning against corporate Sub V debtors. Two bankruptcy judges now side with two circuits in holding that debts of corporate debtors can be nondischargeable.
August 8, 2024
Motions for fees must be made within 14 days of the entry of judgment.
August 7, 2024
To revisit denial of a lift-stay motion, the prior order denying modification of the stay isn’t required to say ‘without prejudice.’
August 2, 2024
The majority in the Fourth Circuit based a bright-line rule on the presence of the word ‘the’ in Section 327(a).
July 31, 2024
Tyler was applied retroactively because the debtor’s efforts to set aside a tax foreclosure judgment were ‘in the pipeline’ when bankruptcy began.
July 30, 2024
The ‘attenuated possibility of insolvency’ in the future does not establish ‘financial distress,’ Circuit Judge Ambro said, interpreting his own prior opinion.
July 26, 2024
Seeking attorneys’ fees from the debtor for a postpetition civil rights violation does not by itself make a postpetition lawsuit subject to the automatic stay.
July 25, 2024
Bankruptcy Judges Wiles in New York decided that insiders were not entitled to releases under Section 503(c), but not for the reasons contained in Purdue.