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An appellate court will decide whether four years of jailing means that civil incarceration has become futile.

A non-objecting creditor is bound by a third-party release even if the release may have been improper.

A ‘cert’ petition asks the high court to overrule Dewsnup and allow chapter 7 debtors to strip down or strip off undersecured mortgages.

The date of the closing of a case is not a ‘specified period’ invoking Rule 9006(b)(1) and requiring a debtor to show excusable neglect before amending schedules to claim an exemption.

The Seventh Circuit’s opinion interpreting the amendment to Rule 62 is nonprecedential and prompted a dissent, and it may apply only in some states.

An appeal from an integrated sale and settlement can be dismissed under Section 363(m), the Fifth Circuit says.

Lack of a circuit split makes equitable mootness an unlikely topic for Supreme Court review.

Qualified immunity kicks in when a trustee’s actions don’t qualify for absolute immunity.

Ninth Circuit says that Section 158(d)(1) isn’t an appeals court’s jurisdiction over a ‘Stern’ matter.