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Ghost of Justice Scalia haunts the high court in a statutory construction case.

You can’t stiff your creditors and profit from an inadvertent stay violation claim.

Appellate panel rides to the rescue and saves a couple about to lose their home.

Judge Tjoflat dissents from his own opinion to advocate rehearing en banc.

Minor dispute as to amount bars using a claim for filing an involuntary petition.

Condos in New Jersey get better protection from the court than from the state legislature.

Bankruptcy judges can be the government’s best collection agents.

Scalia consistently employed a judicial philosophy calling for courts to interpret statutes based on their common meaning.

Did Justice Ginsburg go too far by holding that nothing in chapter 13 applies on conversion to chapter 7?

Advanced degrees for once were no bar to discharging student loans.