At the courthouse, the public is only entitled to free access to papers filed in that district.

Persuasive authority is required before a creditor can be held in contempt for violating the automatic stay protecting a corporate debtor.

Curiously, bifurcated fee arrangements are sometimes permitted in the Eastern District of Kentucky.

A statutory violation by itself won’t necessarily give a plaintiff constitutional standing.

Courts are split on whether chapter 13 effectively prohibits debtors from making voluntary contributions to 401(k) plans.

Judge Hoffman sets up Sixth Circuit to opine on the circuit split regarding the constitutionality of the 2018 increase in fees for the U.S. Trustee system.

Actual notice is required even for contingent liabilities not shown on financial statements, the Sixth Circuit holds.

Disagreeing with two other circuits, the Sixth Circuit finds no power in the bankruptcy court to avoid dismissing a chapter 13 case even if the debtor filed repeatedly in bad faith to avoid foreclosure.

Courts are split on whether having nondischargeable debts gives an individual chapter 7 debtor standing to object to claims.

Circuit Judge Sutton shied away from making a wife liable for her husband’s debts, even though the wife carried on the husband’s farming business.