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Judge Rodriguez holds servicer and lender liable under Rule 3002.1 and the FDCPA for making a claim for unpaid real estate taxes that had been paid.

District judge decides that he lacked jurisdiction to enforce a cross-border protocol against foreign liquidators.

The general rule in Langenkamp calling for the waiver of Seventh Amendment rights prevails over the unique facts of a case.

A nonprecedential opinion applies Fifth Circuit authority to achieve a result that’s equitable for the debtor and creditors, and maybe also for a personal injury defendant.

Assisting a debtor in effecting a fraudulent transfer with ‘actual intent’ isn’t enough to hold the transferee liable.

Fifth Circuit should decide en banc whether nondebtor releases are permissible in receiverships but not in bankruptcy cases.

The Texas UFTA Has No ‘Futility Defense’ When a Transferee Is on Inquiry Notice

Disagreeing with a decision by the First Circuit last December, the Fifth Circuit rules that the ‘plain language’ in Section 362(c)(3)(A) does not terminate the automatic stay as to estate property 30 days after the second filing within one year.

Fifth Circuit upholds its prior ruling that disallowing part of a claim under the Bankruptcy Code does not render the claim ‘impaired’ to allow voting on a chapter 11 plan.

Fifth Circuit bars nationwide class actions to enforce the discharge injunction. However, the appeals court ruled that private student loans are dischargeable.