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February 24, 2020

Bankruptcy judge finds no statutory power for a chapter 13 trustee to prosecute a lawsuit that the debtor was judicially estopped for pursuing.

February 06, 2020

Judge Rodriguez holds servicer and lender liable under Rule 3002.1 and the FDCPA for making a claim for unpaid real estate taxes that had been paid.

January 31, 2020

District judge decides that he lacked jurisdiction to enforce a cross-border protocol against foreign liquidators.

January 22, 2020

The general rule in Langenkamp calling for the waiver of Seventh Amendment rights prevails over the unique facts of a case.

January 10, 2020

A nonprecedential opinion applies Fifth Circuit authority to achieve a result that’s equitable for the debtor and creditors, and maybe also for a personal injury defendant.

January 06, 2020

Assisting a debtor in effecting a fraudulent transfer with ‘actual intent’ isn’t enough to hold the transferee liable.

December 26, 2019

The Texas UFTA Has No ‘Futility Defense’ When a Transferee Is on Inquiry Notice
Fifth Circuit should decide en banc whether nondebtor releases are permissible in receiverships but not in bankruptcy cases.

December 12, 2019

Disagreeing with a decision by the First Circuit last December, the Fifth Circuit rules that the ‘plain language’ in Section 362(c)(3)(A) does not terminate the automatic stay as to estate property 30 days after the second filing within one year.

December 03, 2019

Fifth Circuit upholds its prior ruling that disallowing part of a claim under the Bankruptcy Code does not render the claim ‘impaired’ to allow voting on a chapter 11 plan.