na Cases
November 24, 2021
The transfer of title in a real estate foreclosure is not a transfer on account of an antecedent debt and therefore can’t be a preference, at least in Florida.
November 19, 2021
Reducing a claim between the first and second bankruptcy didn’t prevent the Fifth Circuit from employing res judicata.
November 4, 2021
Until now, there has been surprisingly little precedent directly on point to say that denial of a motion for conversion from chapter 11 to chapter 7 is not a final order subject to appeal
October 12, 2021
Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein explains appellate jurisdiction, finality, cumulative finality and mislabeled motions for reconsideration.
October 6, 2021
Counsel sanctioned $10,000 for making allegations about an intentional or malicious stay violation without having performed an investigation to justify the claims.
September 16, 2021
Lack of authority on point is no defense to a willful violation of the automatic stay, according to the Third Circuit.
September 1, 2021
Reversing in favor of the Madoff trustee, the Second Circuit rules that inquiry notice, not willful blindness, governs the good faith defense by recipients of fraudulent transfers.
August 20, 2021
It isn’t duress when a lender threatens to take action that the loan agreement allows, the circuit court says.
August 16, 2021
Here’s an example of how state law prevents bankruptcy law from being uniform throughout the U.S.
August 3, 2021
The Seventh Circuit provided a useful guide for how much supervision a lawyer must provide when a nonlawyer is doing most of the work.