Once affirmed in the Ninth Circuit, the debtor could file a petition for certiorari to resolve an important circuit split on assumption of intellectual property contracts.

The same question has been sub judice in the Second Circuit for 15 months. Is the Second Circuit on the cusp of making a circuit split?

Redesignation under the SBRA might become a hot topic once again when (if) Congress raises the cap back to $7.5 million.

Reading Husky narrowly, the Eleventh Circuit requires that fraud occur before a debt arises to make the debt nondischargeable under Section 523(a)(2)(A).