September 02, 2025
The dissenter on rehearing believes there are narrow grounds for reopening a closed bankruptcy case.
3rd Circuit
August 29, 2025
The majority on a Third Circuit panel decided that a confirmation order many years earlier prevented one nondebtor from suing another nondebtor on an issue that wouldn’t affect the debtor’s estate but did entail interpreting the confirmation order.
3rd Circuit
August 28, 2025
Reversing its prior decision after rehearing, the Third Circuit allowed a bankruptcy judge to interpret a confirmation decision made 12 years before by a district judge.
3rd Circuit
August 25, 2025
Bankruptcy Judge Harner of Baltimore and Sacramento’s Bankruptcy Judge Klein have both authorized status conferences allowing abuse survivors to address the court and the church.
Maryland
August 19, 2025
Second Circuit barred offensive use of claim preclusion based on ‘fairness’ but hinted that offensive claim preclusion might never be permitted.
2nd Circuit
August 18, 2025
The opinion reads like an invitation for the Eleventh Circuit to sit en banc and reconsider circuit authority holding that a claims-processing deadline is not subject to equitable tolling.
11th Circuit
July 31, 2025
In the Tenth Circuit, there’s a workaround for courts that believe it’s not possible to modify the statutory discharge injunction.
Kansas
July 25, 2025
Just because an avoidance action is prepetition property under Section 541(a)(1) doesn’t mean that a lender can have a lien on the avoidance action as a general intangible, district judge says in affirming Bankruptcy Judge Thad Collins.
Iowa Northern District
July 02, 2025
The inability to modify a Section 524(a) discharge put the Ninth Circuit BAP in a bind.
9th Circuit
