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September 18, 2024

The opinion by Circuit Judge Thomas Ambro reads Jevic as animating the solvent-debtor exception to the disallowance of unmatured interest.

September 13, 2024

Bankruptcy Judge Larson administratively closed a Sub V case after substantial consummation.

September 10, 2024

A chapter 11 plan may not impair the rights of a mortgage lender against a co-owner who is not in bankruptcy.

September 04, 2024

After Purdue, bankruptcy judges are now split on whether mass-tort plans are permissible if creditors must opt out.

August 28, 2024

In the first opinion on the issue after Purdue, Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez holds that Purdue did not change Fifth Circuit law where ‘hundreds’ of ‘opt-out’ plans have been confirmed with nondebtor releases.

August 21, 2024

Professors disagree on whether latent asbestos claims can be discharged without a trust for future claimants.

August 19, 2024

Local rules and local standard plans cannot force a chapter 13 debtor to disregard one of the options in Section 1327 and require revesting of estate assets on discharge.

August 15, 2024

Bankruptcy Judge Paul Bonapfel differed with two judges in Houston by holding that a nonaccepting class in Subchapter V means that a plan must be confirmed in cramdown.

August 14, 2024

Defensive setoff rights are not discharged by chapter 11 confirmation, even when no proof of claim was filed.

August 01, 2024

Claiming 100% of FMV didn’t enable debtors to exempt more than the statutory cap when there had been no objection to the exemption claim.