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.
5th Circuit, Texas, Texas Western District
March 30, 2021
The Eleventh Circuit narrowed its Jet Florida rule that allowed suing a discharged debtor as nominal defendant.
11th Circuit
March 18, 2021
The Third Circuit found loopholes in the purchase agreement permitting the buyer to assert an administrative claim, even though the breakup fee was disallowed.
3rd Circuit
March 15, 2021
The Eleventh Circuit was ‘skeptical’ about a violation of the anti-slavery amendment resulting from the appointment of a chapter 11 trustee to oust an individual chapter 11 debtor in possession.
11th Circuit
March 12, 2021
Fee allowances aren’t made with the benefit of hindsight, the Fifth Circuit says.
5th Circuit
March 09, 2021
Constitutional arguments don’t entitle the creditor to stay relief.
1st Circuit
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 03, 2021
An appeal from a critical vendor order was dismissed as equitably moot.
2nd Circuit
March 01, 2021
In a removed action, nationwide service under Bankruptcy Rule 7004 can give a district court personal jurisdiction, even though the state court would lack personal jurisdiction.
11th Circuit
