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A former bankruptcy judge, now a district judge, makes important law on involuntary petitions.

When personal property loans are cross-collateralized, a chapter 13 plan must use the same option for cramming down both loans, the Fifth Circuit says.

Dissolved by forfeit, a corporation cannot reinstate a charter and may resort to bankruptcy only to liquidate, Judge Eduardo Rodriguez says.

A statement about the profitability of a corporation the debtor owns is a statement about the debtor’s own financial condition, the Fifth Circuit says.

Neither the Bankruptcy Code nor state law permits reducing rent when government regulations restrict a debtor’s ability to generate income, Judge Isgur says.

The Fifth Circuit and now the Court of Claims found no constitutional flaw in the 2017 increase in fees paid by chapter 11 debtors to the U.S. Trustee system.

Dissenter in the Fifth Circuit believes that having both U.S. Trustees and bankruptcy administrators violates the Uniformity Clause.

Although ineligible on its own to be a debtor under subchapter V of chapter 11, the debt of the ineligible company is nonetheless aggregated with the debts of its affiliates to determine whether affiliates are eligible for subchapter V.

Creditors are entitled to ‘default interest’ when the debtor is solvent.

Proceeds from fraudulently transferred property can be recovered from subsequent transferees, Judge Rodriguez says, differing with the Tenth Circuit’s Generation Resources opinion.