Consumer Bankruptcy

Judges’ Roundtable

Pursuing an Untimely Appeal Is Frivolous and Warrants Sanctions in the Fifth Circuit

Losing its patience with late-filed appeals, the Fifth Circuit is close to making significant sanctions automatic.

Supreme Court Grants Certiorari in a Third Bankruptcy Case This Term

High court to decide whether a false oral statement about one asset results in nondischargeability.

Bankruptcy Courts Cannot Impose Punitive Contempt Sanctions, District Judge Says

Circuits split on power of bankruptcy courts to impose punitive or criminal contempt sanctions.

Faculty Biographies (2018 Alexander L. Paskay Memorial Bankruptcy Seminar)

Student Loans: Where Are We, and Where Do We Go from Here?

Consumer Potpourri: Hot Topics in Chapter 13

Case Law Update

BAP Declines to Rule on Waiver Resulting from Election to ‘Surrender’

Mortgage lender fails to export the Eleventh Circuit’s Failla decision to the Ninth Circuit.