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Govt. Claims/Sovereign Immunity
ABI Talks (2019 Midwestern Bankruptcy Institute)
An appeal in the Ninth Circuit did not reach the issue to be decided by the Supreme Court in <em>Rodriguez</em>.
Cannabis and Bankruptcy: The Impermissible Contact High
Federal Circuit upholds dismissal of regulatory ‘takings’ claims against New GM.
Conflicting standards among the circuits warrant a grant of certiorari to define ‘undue hardship’ required for discharging a student loan.
Fifth Circuit now says that student loans must ‘impose intolerable difficulties’ to be dischargeable.
Circuits are split on whether a tax refund presumptively goes to the subsidiary that created the losses giving rise to the refund.