Coney Island is a bankruptcy case, but the question is whether there is a time limit for a Rule 60(b)(4) motion to set aside a judgment for lack of personal jurisdiction over the defendant.

The panel trustee had been found in state court to be a spousal abuser who lied in obtaining a Covid loan.

Given that chapter 7 has remedies like denial of discharge for a debtor’s misconduct, bad faith in chapter 11 doesn’t allow dismissal on conversion to chapter 7.

Following the Supreme Court’s Morgan v. Sundance, the appeals court interpreted an arbitration agreement like any other contract, with no policy favoring arbitration over litigation.

The ‘probate exception’ to federal subject matter jurisdiction does not prevent bankruptcy courts from basing decisions on state trusts and estates law, except in limited circumstances.

The Fifth Circuit undertook a legal analysis of a complex loan agreement to decide there was no ‘fair ground of doubt’ under Taggart that the lender was violating the discharge injunction.

A receiver was tagged $45,000 for failing to turn over estate property by demanding payment of administrative fees.

If there’s a constructive trust on property in the debtor’s name, the debtor was only the trustee of the constructive trust and had no legal interest in the property.

Most justices seemed inclined to believe that the waiver of sovereign immunity in Section 106(a) does not abrogate the “actual creditor” requirement in Section 544(b)(1).

When a trustee mistakenly seizes a nondebtor’s property, the Barton doctrine by itself doesn’t protect the trustee, but judicial immunity does.