November 03, 2020
Impliedly overruling the law in five circuits, the Supreme Court changed the rules for deciding when a deadline is jurisdictional, the Sixth Circuit says.
6th Circuit
October 14, 2020
Judge Grabill finds nothing in Section 1329(d) to preclude extending the duration of a plan if payments were already in default when the CARES Act was enacted on March 27.
5th Circuit, Louisiana, Louisiana Eastern District
October 13, 2020
Supreme Court to resolve a circuit split by deciding whether a change in the status quo must occur before the automatic stay is violated.
Supreme Court
October 08, 2020
On an issue where the courts are split, the Tenth Circuit BAP sides with debtors and allows them to retain postpetition appreciation in the value of assets that were in the estate on filing.
10th Circuit
October 05, 2020
Another judge follows statutory language that didn’t achieve the result Congress probably intended.
10th Circuit, Colorado
October 02, 2020
Reading Husky narrowly, the Eleventh Circuit requires that fraud occur before a debt arises to make the debt nondischargeable under Section 523(a)(2)(A).
11th Circuit
October 01, 2020
An obligation can be penal in nature, and thus nondischargeable, even though it’s measured by pecuniary loss.
3rd Circuit, New Jersey
