Displaying Journal Articles with Topic 1st Circuit

Judge refuses to issue declaratory judgments about Puerto Rico’s use of tax revenues.

Waiving the automatic stay and immediately closing a sale does not make Section 363(m) inapplicable.

First Circuit follows the Fourth Circuit’s Lubrizol and rejects the Seventh Circuit’s Sunbeam.

Converting to chapter 13 to prevent the sale of a home in chapter 7 is not bad faith.

Interlocutory orders by bankruptcy courts on non-core claims don’t give rise to immediate de novo review as proposed findings and conclusions.

First Circuit narrowly applies equitable mootness in a receivership sale.

Allowing intervention as of right, First Circuit repudiates its own prior authority as ‘pure dicta.’

Courts are reluctant to employ PROMESA as a shield against suits involving government administration.

Delaying confirmation wasn’t grounds to abstain.

First Circuit is uncharacteristically lenient on debtors in the context of a motion for a trustee.