Decision by Bankruptcy Judge Michelle Harner demonstrates the flaw in the Fourth Circuit’s rule requiring parallel proceedings in bankruptcy court and in arbitration when disputes are both core and non-core.

First Circuit BAP explains what lien avoidance does and doesn’t do.

Massachusetts bankruptcy judge requires flexibility from both the government and the debtor who is saddled with huge student loans.

Courts are split on whether having nondischargeable debts gives an individual chapter 7 debtor standing to object to claims.

On an upcoming certified appeal, the Eleventh Circuit can decide whether violating a PACA trust is a ‘defalcation while acting in a fiduciary capacity’ that makes a debt nondischargeable.

First Circuit won’t allow a debtor to dismiss and avoid the consequences of abusive conduct.

Bankruptcy court has power to entertain a nationwide class action asserting a discharge violation.

Creditors’ lawyers shot themselves in the foot by having the bankruptcy judge moot a motion for an extension of the dischargeability deadline.

Another court strains to explain why costs incurred by disciplinary authorities were not in compensation for “actual pecuniary loss.”

The Eleventh Circuit narrowed its Jet Florida rule that allowed suing a discharged debtor as nominal defendant.