na Cases
September 5, 2023
A preference opinion from Houston counsels creditors to be cautious when they are expecting payment from insurance.
August 25, 2023
Now a circuit judge, a former bankruptcy judge makes quick work of a troublesome issue about property of the estate.
August 1, 2023
The court’s ability to compel trial testimony by video doesn’t eradicate the 100-mile limitation on issuance of trial subpoenas.
July 25, 2023
Section 959(a) doesn’t permit suing a trustee for breach of fiduciary duty outside of bankruptcy court.
July 5, 2023
When the debtor files bankruptcy before the time has elapsed for a creditor to file a cross appeal, the cross appeal is deemed timely when filed within 30 days after the stay terminated, the Tenth Circuit held.
June 2, 2023
Although a stock purchase and a loan payoff were one month apart, a district judge in Indiana found a sufficient nexus to invoke the safe harbor and dismiss a fraudulent transfer suit.
May 17, 2023
The Supreme Court ducked the question of whether Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories are entitled to Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity just like states.
April 24, 2023
Judge Bason of Los Angeles would permit a creditor in ‘limited circumstances’ to undertake Rule 2004 discovery in a chapter 15 case to further the court’s ‘assistance of the foreign main proceeding.’
March 29, 2023
The district court characterized the agreement not as creating a trust but as a device designed to win priority over a prior, perfected security interest.
March 20, 2023
An appeal brewing in West Virginia may give the Fourth Circuit an opportunity to decide when or whether arbitration agreements are enforceable in bankruptcy.