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Qualified immunity kicks in when a trustee’s actions don’t qualify for absolute immunity.

Supreme Court has three bankruptcy cases this term, on nonjudicial foreclosure, trademark rejection, and contempt for a stay violation.

A lawyer was personally assessed $257,000 in sanctions for failure to disclose that his client had sold its $14 million claim.

A supersedeas bond and a cash deposit are interchangeable in terms of the rights of a judgment creditor, Judge Sacca says.

Circuit splits over trademarks and the automatic stay are contenders for resolution in the Supreme Court.

Law firm suspended 90 days for multiple violations of rules of professional conduct.

Already primed to rule on nonjudicial foreclosure, the Supreme Court might take cases involving contempt, the automatic stay and trademarks.

Judge Barnes won’t allow a chapter 13 debtor’s counsel to be paid at the expense of secured creditors.

BAP opinion shows that contempt is virtually impossible to prove in the Ninth Circuit following Taggart.

Ninth Circuit splits with the First on the interpretation of Section 106(a).