August 12, 2024
A Supreme Court nonbankruptcy decision means there is no right to a jury trial in the claims-allowance process in bankruptcy.
Supreme Court
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
August 01, 2024
Claiming 100% of FMV didn’t enable debtors to exempt more than the statutory cap when there had been no objection to the exemption claim.
9th Circuit
July 31, 2024
Tyler was applied retroactively because the debtor’s efforts to set aside a tax foreclosure judgment were ‘in the pipeline’ when bankruptcy began.
3rd Circuit, New Jersey
July 29, 2024
The Tenth Circuit BAP inferred a requirement of justifiable reliance on nondischargeability for actual fraud.
10th Circuit
July 22, 2024
The Ninth Circuit BAP rebelled against the Supreme Court’s departure from the statute in Kelly v. Robinson on dischargeability under Section 523(a)(7).
9th Circuit
July 03, 2024
The federal appeals court brushed aside technicalities under state criminal law in deciding that an order for restitution was not discharged under Section 1328(a)(3).
4th Circuit
