February 02, 2023
In a case irreconcilable with two recent opinions from the Eleventh Circuit, the Fifth Circuit invokes Barton to bar a lawsuit against a trustee after the bankruptcy case had been closed.
February 01, 2023
Although a UCC lien on ‘accounts’ would attach outside of bankruptcy to proceeds from the sale of real property, Section 552(b) cuts off attachment if the sale occurs after filing
January 13, 2023
Interference with state regulators can compel a bankruptcy court to abstain, even if abstention was not required under 28 U.S.C. § 1334(c).
November 16, 2022
The Fourth Circuit had recently held that both individuals and corporations in subchapter V of chapter 11 are barred from discharging debts that are nondischargeable under Section 523(a).
October 31, 2022
The IRS and Census methods for determining the size of a ‘household’ undercount or overcount economic realities, judge says.
October 27, 2022
Anything that is ‘integrally related’ to a sale is moot in the Fifth Circuit, according to a New Orleans district judge.
October 24, 2022
Subjectively laudable reasons for violating a confidentiality order didn’t absolve the lawyer of sanctions.
October 20, 2022
Creating a circuit split, the Fifth Circuit holds that the solvent-debtor exception to the allowance of post-petition interest survived adoption of the Bankruptcy Code.
October 14, 2022
Once the debtor loses the right to do business, taking customers for no consideration isn’t a fraudulent transfer, Judge Isgur holds.
October 03, 2022
Texas judge rules in favor of the debtor on an issue similar to the question coming before the Supreme Court in Bartenwerfer.