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1st Circuit

Section 108(a) Time Extension Held Not Applicable to Chapter 13 Debtors

Courts split on whether Section 108(a) extension of statutes of limitations applies to chapter 13 debtors.

1st Circuit
New Hampshire

No Quick Exit for Any Creditors from Puerto Rico’s Financial Mess, Judge Says

Judge refuses to issue declaratory judgments about Puerto Rico’s use of tax revenues.

1st Circuit
Puerto Rico

Asset Sale Appeals Are Moot Even if There Is a Jevic Violation, First Circuit Says

Waiving the automatic stay and immediately closing a sale does not make Section 363(m) inapplicable.

1st Circuit

Circuit Split Deepens on Rejection of Trademark Licenses

First Circuit follows the Fourth Circuit’s Lubrizol and rejects the Seventh Circuit’s Sunbeam.

1st Circuit

Boston Judge Allows Conversion to Chapter 13 Just to Prevent the Sale of a Home

Converting to chapter 13 to prevent the sale of a home in chapter 7 is not bad faith.

1st Circuit
Massachusetts

Creative Theory Fails to Give an Automatic Appeal from a Non-Core Interlocutory Order

Interlocutory orders by bankruptcy courts on non-core claims don’t give rise to immediate de novo review as proposed findings and conclusions.

1st Circuit
Maine

First Circuit Narrowly Defines Fiduciaries Who Are Prohibited Buyers of Estate Assets

First Circuit narrowly applies equitable mootness in a receivership sale.

1st Circuit

First Circuit Widens a Circuit Split on a Committee’s Intervention Rights

Allowing intervention as of right, First Circuit repudiates its own prior authority as ‘pure dicta.’

1st Circuit

PROMESA Didn’t Enjoin Damages Suit Against Puerto Rico Government Official

Courts are reluctant to employ PROMESA as a shield against suits involving government administration.

1st Circuit
Puerto Rico

‘Related To’ Jurisdiction Exists over Lien Dispute Between a Creditor and Its Lawyers

Delaying confirmation wasn’t grounds to abstain.

1st Circuit
Massachusetts
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