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Secured Creditor Issues

Views from the Bench (Credit & Bankruptcy Symposium 2019): Part I

Freezing a Chapter 7 Debtor’s Bank Account Doesn’t Violate the Automatic Stay

SDNY opinion seems to mean that a bank may freeze a debtor’s entire bank account at filing, without violating the automatic stay.

Supreme Court Hears Argument on Good Faith as Defense to Discharge Violation

In Taggart v. Lorenzen, the justices sounded largely noncommittal, except for the Chief Justice, who seemed in the debtor’s camp favoring a stricter standard for contempt of the discharge injunction.

Bankrupt with a Pension Plan? Here’s What to Expect

July 2019

BAPCPA Limits Remedies Against Debtors Who Don’t Reaffirm or Surrender

Congress may have intended to preclude ‘stay and pay,’ but it didn’t succeed.

Judges’ Hot Topics (2019 Annual Spring Meeting)

Hot Topics: The Final Report of the ABI Commission on Consumer Bankruptcy

A Collision of Complex Laws: The Interplay Between and Among State and Federal Regulatory Laws in Health Care Cases

Circuit Splits and Other Hot Topics in the Consumer Arena