May 11, 2023
9th Circuit , Idaho ,
The business debt necessary to qualify for Subchapter V need not to have arisen from the debtor’s business at the time of filing, Bankruptcy Judge Meier says.
May 10, 2023
An appeal from an interlocutory order can’t be made final by the district court’s entry of judgment on the first appeal.
May 9, 2023
An election for having a tax refund applied to the following year’s taxes can result in the loss of discharge.
May 8, 2023
Bankruptcy Judges Marvin Isgur and Gregory Taddonio disagree on whether the bankruptcy court has subject matter jurisdiction to grant ‘innocent spouse’ relief to a debtor.
May 5, 2023
The Seventh Circuit explained how preponderance of the evidence became the standard of proof for turnovers and dischargeability when the Bankruptcy Code replaced the Bankruptcy Act.
May 3, 2023
The bankruptcy judge only gave nondebtor J&J companies a more limited stay in the second LTL chapter 11 case.
May 3, 2023
10th Circuit , Colorado ,
A discharge in bankruptcy by itself does not start the statute of limitations running on a defaulted mortgage, Colorado Supreme Court holds.
May 2, 2023
A landlord who terminates a lease isn’t entitled to a claim for future rent, at least in Florida, according to a district judge who affirmed Bankruptcy Judge Isicoff.
May 1, 2023
3rd Circuit , Delaware ,
Judge Goldblatt of Delaware wrote an opinion where the answer was self-evident but there was no authority on point.
April 28, 2023
Eighteenth century ‘history and tradition’ might govern the constitutionality of real estate tax foreclosures where the government retains sale proceeds in excess of unpaid taxes.