October 11, 2022
In spreading the automatic stay, the bankruptcy court again employed the traditional analysis without recognition that the non-debtors are solvent.
3rd Circuit, New Jersey
August 25, 2022
A local government removed a lawsuit to bankruptcy court, but the bankruptcy judge turned around and slam-dunked the government for violating the plaintiff’s Fourteenth Amendment rights.
2nd Circuit, New York, New York Eastern District
August 15, 2022
Res judicata can bar a claim in a later lawsuit if it wasn’t raised in bankruptcy court, given a bankruptcy court’s broad jurisdiction.
6th Circuit
August 08, 2022
The First Circuit BAP suggests that invocation of the borrower defense with regard to dischargeability of student loans requires exhaustion of administrative remedies in the Department of Education.
1st Circuit
May 24, 2022
Dissenter implies that the First Circuit should sit en banc and rule that the Oversight Board’s sovereign immunity was not waived
1st Circuit
May 18, 2022
The Affordable Care Act’s ‘individual mandate’ was a tax measured by income, thus giving the IRS a priority tax claim.
3rd Circuit
May 10, 2022
Over a vigorous dissent, the First Circuit Joins the Ninth Circuit by holding that Section 106(a) waives tribes’ sovereign immunity.
1st Circuit
May 02, 2022
The City of Chicago argued unsuccessfully that liens on cars are statutory because they arise automatically when the car is impounded.
7th Circuit
