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April 21, 2021

A fast-food worker can (conceivably) qualify as a small business debtor under Subchapter V, according to Bankruptcy Judge Thomas B. McNamara.

April 20, 2021

Bankruptcy court has power to entertain a nationwide class action asserting a discharge violation.

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.

April 16, 2021

Delaware bankruptcy judge trusts that dating lawyers at adversary firms didn’t disclose client confidences.

April 15, 2021

Seventh Circuit says that Fulton left open the question of whether holding an impounded car violates Sections 362(a)(4) or (a)(6).

April 12, 2021

Bankruptcy removal statute doesn’t permit moving a suit in district court to the bankruptcy court in another district.

April 07, 2021

The Supreme Court’s Midland Funding opinion was no defense to invocation of a Nevada statute shifting fees and compelling the creditor to pay the debtor’s costs in expunging stale claims.

April 06, 2021

If a case is dismissed, all assets revest in the debtor and nothing remains in the bankruptcy estate, not even undisclosed assets.

April 05, 2021

Creditors’ lawyers shot themselves in the foot by having the bankruptcy judge moot a motion for an extension of the dischargeability deadline.

March 30, 2021

The Eleventh Circuit narrowed its Jet Florida rule that allowed suing a discharged debtor as nominal defendant.