April 19, 2023
A BAP strictly enforced the stay against a mortgage servicer who improperly listed a pre-petition debt in the portion of the monthly statement showing the next post-petition payment.
9th Circuit
April 14, 2023
A terse Second Circuit order seems to mean that a stay of a confirmation order pending appeal granted in district court can’t be appealed to the circuit, at least when the appeal is being expedited.
2nd Circuit
April 13, 2023
Contributions to 401(k) plans are deducted from ‘projected disposable income,’ even though the debtor was not making contributions before filing
5th Circuit, Texas, Texas Southern District
April 07, 2023
In the Alex Jones corporate Subchapter V case, Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez said that the later chapter 11 filing by Jones himself, with about $1.5 billion in debt, didn’t kick the corporate debtor out of Subchapter V and into ‘ordinary’ chapter 11.
5th Circuit, Texas, Texas Southern District
April 06, 2023
Peculiar circumstance compelled a Delaware judge to depart from his usual approval of ‘opt-out’ plans that grant non-debtor releases.
3rd Circuit, Delaware
April 04, 2023
Upholding confirmation of the Boy Scouts’ chapter 11 plan, the district judge in Delaware disagreed with his counterpart in New York who found no statutory power to impose non-consensual, non-debtor third-party releases.
3rd Circuit, Delaware
March 14, 2023
District judge in Connecticut upheld an award of ‘default’ interest, even though the fully secured lender had opposed the chapter 11 process and resisted the use of its cash collateral.
2nd Circuit, Connecticut
