July 21, 2021
Judge Hoffman sets up Sixth Circuit to opine on the circuit split regarding the constitutionality of the 2018 increase in fees for the U.S. Trustee system.
6th Circuit, Ohio, Ohio Southern District
July 16, 2021
Actual notice is required even for contingent liabilities not shown on financial statements, the Sixth Circuit holds.
6th Circuit
July 12, 2021
Increasingly, courts are allowing defunct corporations to proceed under the SBRA while individual owners of defunct businesses aren’t being treated as small business debtors in chapter 11.
5th Circuit, Texas, Texas Southern District
July 06, 2021
Judge Harner does the best she can to ease the burden imposed on a debtor by student loans.
4th Circuit, Maryland
July 02, 2021
In Pennsylvania, a gaming license isn’t ‘property.’ It’s a revocable license that can’t be owned.
3rd Circuit
June 30, 2021
Two judges appointed to the Ninth Circuit by President Trump disagree about the ability of a creditor to enforce the automatic stay for its benefit or to protect the estate.
9th Circuit
June 29, 2021
Supreme Court narrows Spokeo by holding that violation of a statute won’t always give rise to standing and the right to sue for damages.
Supreme Court
June 28, 2021
Although the arbitrator didn’t explicitly find willful and malicious injury, the nature of a successful claim for sexual discrimination supplied the required findings for nondischargeability.
9th Circuit
