April 19, 2021
California district judge sides with the dissenter in the Fifth Circuit in saying that the parallel systems of U.S. Trustees and Bankruptcy Administrators violates the Bankruptcy Clause of the Constitution.
9th Circuit, California, California Central District
April 08, 2021
Subordination agreement did not transfer voting rights, but prudential standing nevertheless barred the subordinated creditor from participating in confirmation, Judge Somers says.
10th Circuit, Kansas
April 02, 2021
Judge McNamara of Denver allowed chapter 13 debtors to keep all of a $46,500 personal injury settlement received before filing.
10th Circuit, Colorado
March 08, 2021
The owner of defunct businesses was held ineligible to be a small business debtor because he was no longer the owner of an operating business. Being a non-owner executive of an operating business didn’t qualify him.
5th Circuit, Texas, Texas Northern District
March 04, 2021
Deferred payments to unsecured creditors in a chapter 13 plan must equal the present value of the distributions required by the best interests test, Judge Halfenger says.
7th Circuit, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Eastern District
February 11, 2021
Confirmation appeals in two big cases are dismissed on the same day for equitable mootness.
1st Circuit
January 15, 2021
Dissenter would have upheld horizontal gifting on the merits.
3rd Circuit
January 13, 2021
Where the courts are split, Idaho judge sides with the Tenth Circuit BAP and allows a chapter 13 debtor to retain post-petition appreciation in the value of a homestead following conversion to chapter 7.
9th Circuit, Idaho
