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October 04, 2021

The Iqbal and Twombly standards don’t apply to involuntary petitioners who are required to use Official Form 105.

October 01, 2021

There can be no question about whether the beneficiary of a surety bond has been ‘paid in full’ before the surety has subrogation rights.

September 30, 2021

A creditor can’t elect a trustee to pick its adversary in a lawsuit, Bankruptcy Judge Gunn says.

September 28, 2021

Under unusual circumstances, a two-year delay in completing service of process was not fatal in the Eleventh Circuit.

September 24, 2021

Had the purchaser of estate claims offered to waive its own unsecured claim, the sale might have been approved.

September 22, 2021

The Third Circuit made more rules to decide whether an insurance company can be insulated from failure-to-warn claims by the channeling injunction in a chapter 11 ‘asbestos’ plan.

September 20, 2021

The Tenth Circuit will likely take sides on a split between the Ninth and Seventh Circuits on Section 544(b) state-law claims brought by a trustee in the shoes of an actual creditor.

September 17, 2021

Properly structuring a leveraged refinancing in the Second Circuit can avoid attack as a fraudulent transfer despite the Supreme Court’s effort at narrowing the ‘safe harbor.’

September 15, 2021

Would Section 364(c) validate a “PPP” loan even if an order compelling the SBA to make the loan was reversed on appeal?

September 13, 2021

Eleventh Circuit limits its own precedent to say that pawn lenders aren’t entirely immune from bankruptcy.