April 04, 2025
Circuit court upholds Bankruptcy Judge Jernigan: Notice by publication doesn’t discharge claims from a lease that rode through chapter 11 or was assumed.
5th Circuit
March 31, 2025
Bankruptcy judges continue to disagree on whether debts of corporations with cramdown plans in Subchapter V can have nondischargeable debts.
10th Circuit, Colorado
March 25, 2025
Reversing the BAP, the Ninth Circuit held that equitable considerations may stop the government from recovering disability overpayments, when the doctrine of recoupment otherwise would have allowed recovery despite the debtor’s chapter 7 discharge.
9th Circuit
March 03, 2025
New York’s Bankruptcy Judge David Jones reopened Texaco’s 1988 bankruptcy to ensure that state courts wouldn’t mistakenly decide that environmental claims were discharged
2nd Circuit, New York, New York Southern District
February 12, 2025
A homestead can be protected from collection of a nondischargeable debt, limiting the judgment creditor to attaching nonexempt property.
9th Circuit, Arizona
February 10, 2025
The self-insured retention can prevent a creditor from using the insurer exception to sue the insurance company with the debtor as a nominal defendant.
5th Circuit
February 03, 2025
The Fifth Circuit undertook a legal analysis of a complex loan agreement to decide there was no ‘fair ground of doubt’ under Taggart that the lender was violating the discharge injunction.
5th Circuit
January 28, 2025
A district court in Minnesota left the door open for sometimes compelling debtors to arbitrate claims arising in a bankruptcy case.
8th Circuit, Minnesota
