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Splitting with the Sixth Circuit, Pittsburgh district judge rules that a FLSA suit falls within the ‘police and regulatory’ exception to the automatic stay.

Finding a proper exercise of regulatory power isn’t required to invoke the exception to the automatic stay.

Sometimes, being too aggressive backfires when the defendant files bankruptcy.

A gaming license in Pennsylvania is a revocable ‘privilege.’

Sovereign immunity required dismissal of a suit to recover the value of a gambling license because the suit wasn’t an ancillary exercise of the bankruptcy court’s in rem jurisdiction over a res.

States have no sovereign immunity defense to lien stripping, even if the state has not filed a proof of claim.

The right of indemnification by a bankrupt isn’t establishing ‘related to’ jurisdiction in federal court.

Money taken from a debtor’s own retirement account to pay a creditor does not qualify for the earmarking defense, Chief Judge Fehling says.

For three independent reasons, Judge Taddonio rules that states are not immune from stripping down or stripping off tax liens.

District court second-guesses the sufficiency of evidence that the bankruptcy court found sufficient.