May 23, 2024
Seventh Circuit again holds that Section 505(a) doesn’t confer jurisdiction for bankruptcy courts to decide how much debtors owe in taxes.
7th Circuit
May 20, 2024
A lender was filing baseless dischargeability complaints believing that the impecunious debtors would default or settle.
9th Circuit
May 16, 2024
Medicaid overpayments may be recovered as ‘recoupment’ while Social Security overpayments are attempted setoffs barred by discharge, Bankruptcy Judge Harwood says.
1st Circuit, New Hampshire
May 13, 2024
The same question has been sub judice in the Second Circuit for 15 months. Is the Second Circuit on the cusp of making a circuit split?
7th Circuit
May 10, 2024
The Ninth Circuit BAP holds that nondischargeability of student loans in Section 523(a)(8) isn’t ‘self-executing.’
9th Circuit
April 24, 2024
The lack of perfection of a federal tax lien did not mean that the entireties interest was exempt under Section 522(b)(3).
4th Circuit
April 10, 2024
Seemingly in conflict with Section 329, a district court decided that a chapter 7 debtor’s attorneys could sue for post-petition fees, even though the firm never disclosed the fee arrangement as required by Section 329 and Rule 2016.
3rd Circuit, New Jersey
