Bankruptcy Judge Paul Black was affirmed in district court for holding that arbitration of claims for violating the automatic stay would conflict with the centrality of administration in bankruptcy cases.

For a sale ‘free and clear,’ nondebtors can be enjoined from suing.

District court equates distribution to creditors in chapter 13 to substantial consummation of a chapter 11 plan.

Virginia’s Judge Keith Phillips sides with courts that bar lenders from cutting deals with trustees to eliminate debtors’ homestead exemptions.

Bankruptcy Judge Paul Black denied a motion to compel arbitration but didn’t decide whether he would certify a class.

Expedience is no substitute for disinterestedness when it comes to retention of a chapter 11 debtor’s general counsel.

Judge Huennekens explained that a church’s immunity for receipt of a constructively fraudulent transfer only applies if the transferor was an individual and the transferor was the debtor.

Bankruptcy Judge Brian Kenney ruled that an indenture trustee must be on a committee when the debt is ‘overwhelmingly’ held by bondholders.

The ‘broad’ definition of ‘claim’ by the Supreme Court in Johnson led Judge Huennekens to hold that in rem rights against a debtor’s property give rise to a ‘claim.’

Future liability on a lease was counted as a liquidated, noncontingent debt in calculating whether the Subchapter V debtor had more than $7.5 million in debt.