ABI Journal

Feb 2018

Inside ABI February 2018 Legislative Highlights February 2018 Time to Resolve Confusion on Pension Contributions Business Bankruptcy Law in Focus: "Practical Casebook" Is No Longer an Oxymoron 40 Years of Electronic Music: An Interview with Judge Barreca

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Jan 2018

Inside ABI January 2018 Legislative Highlights January 2018 ABI Consumer Commission Hears Public Statements in Chicago Redwater Energy: Environmental Clean-Up Costs in Canada Since When Have We Complained of Equal Treatment?

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Nov 2017

Inside ABI November 2017 Two Bankruptcy Cases on the Supreme Court’s Calendar: Plus Other Circuit Splits Waiting in the Wings Legislative Highlights November 2017 ABI Commission Hearings Held During NABT Convention in New Orleans The Continuing Value of the Joint Session in Mediation

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Oct 2017

Inside ABI October 2017 Legislative Highlights October 2017 Proposed Amendments to the FRBP; Written Comments Due by Feb. 15, 2018 Benchnotes October 2017 Happy 25th Birthday, ABC!

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Sept 2017

Inside ABI September 2017 Legislative Highlights September 2017 ABI Consumer Commission Hears from Stakeholders at NACTT Conference Just Say No to Drugs? Creditors Not Getting a Fair Shake When Marijuana-Related Cases Are Dismissed Unjust Enrichment or Fraudulent Transfer? Try Both

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Aug 2017

Inside ABI August 2017 You Get What You Paid For: Bankruptcy Court Agrees to Hear Nationwide Class Action Suit Against a Claim Purchaser USTP’s Activities Highlighted in Testimony Before Congress Reasonable Search and Seizure: Balancing a Trustee’s Duties Against the Fourth Amendment The Delaware of Asia: Singapore Establishes Itself as a New Restructuring Center

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July 2017

Inside ABI July 2017 Legislative Highlights July 2017 Scholars Oppose Eliminating OLA as Crisis-Avoidance Restructuring Backstop USTP’s Agenda on Chapter 11 Corporate Reorganization Issues ABC Congratulates New Members

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June 2017

Inside ABI June 2017 Caught in a Vicious CERCLA: GM’s Environmental Turnaround Developing: Puerto Rico Enters Bankruptcy on May 3: Faithful to PROMESA and Congressional Intent? Legislative Highlights June 2017 ABI Consumer Commission Holds Hearing at NACBA Annual Meeting

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May 2017

Inside ABI May 2017 Legislative Highlights May 2017 House Committee Approves Large Bank Financial Resolution Bill Re-“Structuring” Dismissal Flexibility: An Analysis of the Supreme Court’s Jevic Decision Examining § 362(a)(3): When “Stay” Means Stay

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April 2017

Inside ABI April 2017 ABI Announces Commission on Consumer Bankruptcy Legislative Highlights April 2017 Judge Gorsuch on Bankruptcy Centralized Cash-Management and Avoidance Actions (Part II): Contemporaneous-Exchange Defense and More Headaches

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March 2017

Inside ABI March 2017 Legislative Highlights March 2017 Gorsuch: A Writer in the Style of Judges Easterbrook and Posner Benchnotes March 2017 Informational Letters Do Not Violate the Discharge Injunction

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Feb 2017

Inside ABI February 2017 Legislative Highlights February 2017 President Trump’s Selections for Key Positions; 115th Congress Organizes Benchnotes February 2017 Stale Claim Circuit Discord at the Supreme Court

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Jan 2017

The Not-So-New Rule 3002.1: It Only Works if We Use It Holding On to Reclamation Rights under In re Reichhold Holdings A Closer Look at State Filing Trends Divided Circuit Denies Lenders Standing to Appeal under “Persons Aggrieved” Doctrine Legislative Highlights January 2017

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Dec 2016

’Tis the Season for Thanksgiving and Holiday Cheer How to Lessen the Big Costs of Small-Business Bankruptcy Ethics and the Internet Law Firm Benchnotes December 2016 CFBP’s Debt-Collection Proposals Spring No Surprises

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Nov 2016

Law and (Sparrer) Sausages: “Remains Unpaid” Continues to Confound in Preference Cases Assessing Fraud: Insights from Selected Voidable Transfer-Related Matters A New Proposal for Intercreditor and Other Side Agreements Intervention Energy Holdings: Good Public Policy, or Unnecessary Intrusion into State Law? Are New Environmental Policies and Proposed Rules for Self-Bonding Lumps of Coal or Diamond?

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