Judge Meredith Grabill of New Orleans agreed with New York’s Judge Mastando that a Subchapter V plan can enjoin lawsuits against nondebtors for the life of a three-year plan.

Courts aren’t fully in agreement, but most hold that non-purchase money debt service on a car isn’t an ‘ownership cost’ deducted from current monthly income to arrive at disposable income in chapter 13.

Seeking attorneys’ fees from the debtor did not by itself make a postpetition lawsuit subject to the automatic stay.

A large sanction was civil, not criminal, because it was designed for deterrence.

Anything that is ‘integrally related’ to a sale is moot in the Fifth Circuit, according to a New Orleans district judge.

Subjectively laudable reasons for violating a confidentiality order didn’t absolve the lawyer of sanctions.

Being removed from an official committee doesn’t harm the former member’s pecuniary interests and therefore doesn’t confer appellate standing.

An irrevocable surety bond isn’t executory because it gives the bonding company no further obligations to the debtor.

Judge Grabill would have given commercial creditors either their own committee or special counsel given the different interests of sexual abuse claimants.

A former bankruptcy judge, now a district judge, makes important law on involuntary petitions.