Judge Olson refers a lawyer for civil and criminal investigations after uncovering dozens of unauthorized filings.

‘No objectively reasonable basis’ is the high court standard to find civil contempt for violating the discharge injunction.

Second Circuit won’t give a defendant a windfall if the debtor scheduled the lawsuit in the wrong place but told the trustee and the court.

Appeals court lauds Bankruptcy Judge Jeffrey Norman’s ‘well-reasoned’ opinion.

The Ninth Circuit BAP follows Kelley, even though the panel implies that the Supreme Court tortured the language in Section 523(a)(7).

In Taggart v. Lorenzen, the justices sounded largely noncommittal, except for the Chief Justice, who seemed in the debtor’s camp favoring a stricter standard for contempt of the discharge injunction.

Copious disclosure required for post-petition payment of fees to be permissible in chapter 7.

Fed up with a lawyer’s frivolous litigation tactics, the federal and state courts suspended a lawyer from practice.

A creditor must attempt to stop a state court from violating the stay, the Sixth Circuit BAP holds.

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