July 29, 2021
Tenth Circuit splits with the Third and Seventh Circuits on allowing a debtor to cure defaults after a five-year plan has ended.
10th Circuit
July 26, 2021
If the complaint was properly plead, a general default judgment might invoke issue preclusion to bar discharge of a debt.
11th Circuit
July 20, 2021
No circuit split: The Second Circuit agrees with the Fifth and Tenth Circuits that only a subset of private student loans is automatically nondischargeable.
2nd Circuit
July 06, 2021
Judge Harner does the best she can to ease the burden imposed on a debtor by student loans.
4th Circuit, Maryland
June 28, 2021
Although the arbitrator didn’t explicitly find willful and malicious injury, the nature of a successful claim for sexual discrimination supplied the required findings for nondischargeability.
9th Circuit
June 04, 2021
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.
4th Circuit, Maryland
June 03, 2021
First Circuit BAP explains what lien avoidance does and doesn’t do.
1st Circuit
May 24, 2021
Massachusetts bankruptcy judge requires flexibility from both the government and the debtor who is saddled with huge student loans.
1st Circuit, Massachusetts
