August 22, 2025
An individual debtor conceded that being jailed for violation of a prepetition state court injunction wasn’t an automatic stay violation.
10th Circuit
June 09, 2025
If state law prohibits assertion of the homestead exemption in tax foreclosure and the debtor can’t take federal exemptions, does the debtor lack standing to set aside a fraudulent transfer?
2nd Circuit, New York, New York Eastern District
March 27, 2025
In an 8-1 opinion, the Supreme Court holds that the waiver of sovereign immunity under Section 106(a) does not extend to suits brought by a trustee under state law standing in the shoes of an actual creditor.
Supreme Court
March 18, 2025
A class action in Chicago will decide whether bankruptcy judges have the tools to rectify a single creditor’s violation of the rights of similarly situated debtors.
7th Circuit, Illinois, Illinois Northern District
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
December 17, 2024
The First Circuit applied the ‘collateral order doctrine’ to allow an appeal by the government when a private party would be stuck with a nonappealable, interlocutory order.
1st Circuit
December 05, 2024
Most justices seemed inclined to believe that the waiver of sovereign immunity in Section 106(a) does not abrogate the “actual creditor” requirement in Section 544(b)(1).
Supreme Court
November 21, 2024
The bankruptcy judge in Houston denied the U.S. Trustee’s motion to quash deposition subpoenas in the fight over disgorgement of fees for failure to disclose an allegedly close relationship between the judge and a firm lawyer.
5th Circuit, Texas, Texas Southern District
