February 09, 2018
Courts split on whether Section 108(a) extension of statutes of limitations applies to chapter 13 debtors.
1st Circuit, New Hampshire
February 02, 2018
Judge refuses to issue declaratory judgments about Puerto Rico’s use of tax revenues.
1st Circuit, Puerto Rico
January 18, 2018
Waiving the automatic stay and immediately closing a sale does not make Section 363(m) inapplicable.
1st Circuit
January 16, 2018
First Circuit follows the Fourth Circuit’s Lubrizol and rejects the Seventh Circuit’s Sunbeam.
1st Circuit
December 29, 2017
Converting to chapter 13 to prevent the sale of a home in chapter 7 is not bad faith.
1st Circuit, Massachusetts
November 03, 2017
Interlocutory orders by bankruptcy courts on non-core claims don’t give rise to immediate de novo review as proposed findings and conclusions.
1st Circuit, Maine
October 20, 2017
First Circuit narrowly applies equitable mootness in a receivership sale.
1st Circuit
September 26, 2017
Allowing intervention as of right, First Circuit repudiates its own prior authority as ‘pure dicta.’
1st Circuit
September 08, 2017
Courts are reluctant to employ PROMESA as a shield against suits involving government administration.
1st Circuit, Puerto Rico
