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An appellate court will decide whether four years of jailing means that civil incarceration has become futile.

Arizona judge declines to expand Harris v. Viegelahn to cases when conversion precedes confirmation.

Ninth Circuit gives short shrift to a man who continues defying an order to turn over $1.4 million of estate property.

Ninth Circuit opinion is prime for Supreme Court review regarding the extent of a bankruptcy court’s contempt powers.

Bankruptcy courts have constitutional power to sanction for actions occurring during administration of a bankruptcy case.

Unique facts were again the basis for a result seemingly at odds with the statute.

Removing and discharging a trustee are not synonymous, Houston judge rules.

On dismissal before chapter 13 confirmation, the debtor gets undistributed funds, not a creditor with a valid state court levy.

Tennessee judge changes a practice established in 1995 regarding unclaimed distributions.

With no circuit authority, lower courts are split on the fate of standing trustees’ fees when a chapter 13 case is dismissed before confirmation.