January 16, 2025
A receiver was tagged $45,000 for failing to turn over estate property by demanding payment of administrative fees.
5th Circuit
November 21, 2024
The bankruptcy judge in Houston denied the U.S. Trustee’s motion to quash deposition subpoenas in the fight over disgorgement of fees for failure to disclose an allegedly close relationship between the judge and a firm lawyer.
5th Circuit, Texas, Texas Southern District
November 20, 2024
Ninth Circuit BAP says there is no due process problem with denial of chapter 13 trustee fees if dismissal precedes confirmation.
9th Circuit
October 21, 2024
Bankruptcy courts are divided on whether the calculation of a trustee’s commissions includes distributions made to co-owners of property that the trustee has sold.
4th Circuit, Maryland
August 08, 2024
Motions for fees must be made within 14 days of the entry of judgment.
1st Circuit
August 02, 2024
The majority in the Fourth Circuit based a bright-line rule on the presence of the word ‘the’ in Section 327(a).
4th Circuit
June 17, 2024
Saying that the constitutional infirmity was “small” and “short-lived,” the majority decided that prospective relief was enough because Congress subsequently enacted a law mandating uniformity in the future with regard to fees for U.S. Trustees and Bankruptcy Administrators
Supreme Court
June 05, 2024
Concurrent representation of a 43% shareholder was disqualifying while representing a creditor with 79% of the debt did not disqualify.
3rd Circuit, New Jersey
June 04, 2024
Courts have at least six theories about compensation for chapter 7 trustees for valuable services rendered when the case converts to chapter 13 before the trustee has made any distributions.
10th Circuit, New Mexico
