Displaying with Topic Practice and Procedure

Allowing intervention as of right, First Circuit repudiates its own prior authority as ‘pure dicta.’

Eleventh Circuit inveighs against harming innocent creditors by invoking judicial estoppel.

Ninth Circuit ringingly endorses allowance of prepetition contingent fee arrangements.

Priority skipping permitted as part of final approval of DIP financing.

New York offers a chapter 15 home for foreign companies hoping to avoid liquidation.

A receiver who is not ‘disinterested’ can justify putting a company in bankruptcy.

The Code or rules must change to bar debt collectors from filing stale claims, Judge Dow says.

Ninth Circuit criticizes the Seventh for making the sovereign immunity waiver meaningless for Section 544(b)(1) suits.

The Eighth Circuit bars clever litigation tactics designed to evade the FDCPA on suits to collect time-barred claims.

Dissenter argues that suing in bankruptcy court was sufficient disclosure to avoid judicial estoppel.