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March 26, 2020

Ninth Circuit assumed that transferred property must remain property of the estate after conversion from ‘13’ to ‘7’ before the chapter 7 trustee can avoid an unauthorized transfer under Section 549.

March 24, 2020

Calling the Madoff trustee a liar and basing a discovery motion on facts known to be false resulted in sanctions under Rule 37(a)(5)(B).

March 16, 2020

A judicial lien may be avoided under Section 522(f) only if the lien attached after the debtor acquired the property.

February 19, 2020

Lawyers leaving a bankrupt firm are not required to pay over profits on hourly matters they take to their new firms.

February 10, 2020

Delaware’s Judge Owens won’t allow perpetrators of a fraudulent transfer to benefit from avoiding the transfer.

January 29, 2020

The one-year discovery clause in UFTA allows a debtor or trustee to file an avoidance suit even if the ordinary four-year statute has elapsed.

January 27, 2020

Sixth Circuit upholds dismissal of claims for reverse veil piercing and reverse alter ego.

January 17, 2020

A creditor lost a dischargeability suit by failing to call the right witnesses to prove that a lawyer’s trust account was used to hide assets.

January 08, 2020

Sovereign immunity required dismissal of a suit to recover the value of a gambling license because the suit wasn’t an ancillary exercise of the bankruptcy court’s in rem jurisdiction over a res.

January 07, 2020

The Supreme Court’s Merit Management opinion fails to persuade the Second Circuit to change the result in Tribune.