In the first court of appeals decision on the topic, the Eleventh Circuit holds that the chapter 13 trustee alone has power to assume a lease or contract.

Receiver barred from bringing aiding and abetting claims if the company was dominated by fraudsters.

Magistrate judge decided that the regulatory power exception to the automatic stay allows the EEOC to proceed, but he stayed the suit by the former employee seeking damages.

For the Eleventh Circuit, scheduling the unsecured claim resulted in automatic rejection even though the contract was not scheduled as executory.

Even if the two-year statute of limitations for avoidance actions has run, the trustee can still strip away the lender’s secured status in a claim objection.

Florida judge largely agrees with a Delaware judge by holding that the increase in fees for the U.S. Trustee program is neither impermissibly retroactive nor unconstitutional, mostly speaking.

Taggart allows a court to deny a contempt motion without deciding whether the creditor’s action actually violated the discharge injunction.

The Supreme Court has ducked the split twice in recent years but should tackle the question this time around.

In matrimonial cases, courts find creative reasons for not avoiding a lien that impairs an exemption.

A subsequent transferee may be entitled to challenge a fraudulent transfer judgment from a prior suit against the initial transferee.