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Rochellel's Daily Wire

May 22, 2025

Two Courts Hold: Injunctions Are Ok to Protect Nondebtors for the Life of a Plan

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.

5th Circuit, Louisiana, Louisiana Eastern District

September 25, 2023

Nonpurchase Money Debt Service on a Car Isn’t a Deductible ‘Ownership’ Cost in ‘13’

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.

5th Circuit, Louisiana, Louisiana Western District

August 16, 2023

A Suit to Impose a Prepetition Policy Didn’t Violate the Automatic Stay, District Judge Says

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

5th Circuit, Louisiana, Louisiana Eastern District

March 31, 2023

$400,000 in Sanctions Upheld for Violation of a Confidentiality Order

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

5th Circuit, Louisiana, Louisiana Eastern District

October 27, 2022

Fifth Circuit Interprets Section 363(m) More Broadly than Other Circuits

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

5th Circuit, Louisiana, Louisiana Eastern District

October 24, 2022

Judge Grabill Imposes $400,000 in Sanctions for Violation of Confidentiality Order

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

5th Circuit, Louisiana, Louisiana Eastern District

September 13, 2022

Being Tossed Off a Committee Doesn’t Confer Appellate Standing, District Judge Says

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

5th Circuit, Louisiana, Louisiana Eastern District

October 05, 2021

Surety Bonds Aren’t Executory Contract and Can’t Be Assumed, District Judge Says

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

5th Circuit, Louisiana

February 12, 2021

Additional Committee for Commercial Creditors Appointed in Archdiocese Bankruptcy

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

5th Circuit, Louisiana, Louisiana Eastern District

January 28, 2021

Defenses to Preferences Are Considered in Counting an Involuntary Debtor’s Creditors

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

5th Circuit, Louisiana, Louisiana Western District