Deciding to transfer venue, a North Carolina bankruptcy judge said that the debtor underwent a corporate restructuring ‘purely for the purpose of filing bankruptcy.’

Reducing a claim between the first and second bankruptcy didn’t prevent the Fifth Circuit from employing res judicata.

Eleventh Circuit holds that the lack of notice required by Bankruptcy Rule 2002(c)(3) did not result in the invalidity of non-debtor, third-party releases in a chapter 11 plan.

Insurance coverage disputes are ‘routinely resolved in summary judgment,’ counseling against immediate withdrawal of the reference of a non-core lawsuit, district judge says.

Judge Clarkson laid down guidelines for a lawyer who copies pleadings written by another lawyer in a different case.

The suggestion that the debtor never won undercut the poker player’s testimony about uncorroborated gambling losses.

Until now, there has been surprisingly little precedent directly on point to say that denial of a motion for conversion from chapter 11 to chapter 7 is not a final order subject to appeal

Standing has three components: statutory standing, constitutional standing and prudential standing, Judge Thuma explains.

The Ninth Circuit B.A.P. says that the automatic stay does not require dismissal of prepetition lawsuits against debtors.

Motions to recuse three bankruptcy judges fortified the third judge’s decision to dismiss and bar refiling for three years.