May 31, 2024
The Fifth Circuit joins two other circuits in requiring ‘more’ to amend a proof of claim after confirmation of a chapter 11 plan.
5th Circuit
May 30, 2024
Is feasibility of a plan reviewed for abuse of discretion or clear error? The circuits are split.
3rd Circuit
May 29, 2024
Eleventh Circuit seems to hold that a mortgage on any property with a principal residence can’t be modified even if the principal use of the property is commercial.
11th Circuit
May 23, 2024
Seventh Circuit again holds that Section 505(a) doesn’t confer jurisdiction for bankruptcy courts to decide how much debtors owe in taxes.
7th Circuit
May 20, 2024
A lender was filing baseless dischargeability complaints believing that the impecunious debtors would default or settle.
9th Circuit
May 17, 2024
The Bankruptcy Code dropped ‘person aggrieved’ as the standard for appellate standing. Did it survive nonetheless?
5th Circuit
May 15, 2024
Whether orders in contested matters are ever appealable is in doubt after a Fourth Circuit decision that declined to follow contrary opinions by bankruptcy appellate panels.
4th Circuit
May 09, 2024
Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Bradley disagreed with a district court in Florida that required a ‘true up’ if actual disposable income in Sub V exceeds projected disposable income.
5th Circuit, Texas, Texas Western District
May 08, 2024
On remand from the Supreme Court and the Second Circuit, the district court decides that the Mall of America landlord isn’t entitled to more than the bargain it made with Sears in 1991.
2nd Circuit, New York, New York Southern District
