June 21, 2024
Circuits are split on whether claims for contempt of the discharge injunction must be brought in the bankruptcy court that issued the discharge.
May 23, 2024
Seventh Circuit again holds that Section 505(a) doesn’t confer jurisdiction for bankruptcy courts to decide how much debtors owe in taxes.
May 13, 2024
The same question has been sub judice in the Second Circuit for 15 months. Is the Second Circuit on the cusp of making a circuit split?
April 12, 2024
Courts are split on whether the confirmation requirements in Section 1325(b)(1) apply when a debtor seeks confirmation of an amended plan.
March 20, 2024
The Seventh Circuit adopted a broad reading of the Section 546(e) safe harbor to dismiss a fraudulent transfer suit attacking a sale of nonpublic securities.
March 06, 2024
By referring to the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, the appellant might have won an appeal where the bankruptcy court effectively set aside an erroneous decision by a state court regarding discharge.
February 13, 2024
Nondischargeability for Sub V corporate debtors is sub judice in the Fifth Circuit.
January 30, 2024
When there has been a division of marital property, does a debtor only hold legal title to property given to the spouse?
December 28, 2023
Being an heir by itself doesn’t bring a decedent’s estate into the heir’s bankruptcy estate.
December 07, 2023
Chicago Bankruptcy Judge David Cleary followed a decision by then-district Judge David Hamilton and “respectfully” disagreed with decisions by two predecessors on the same bankruptcy bench.