Preferences

Preference Rules Are the Same When Two Bankruptcies Collide

The Dreier Ponzi scheme, like Madoff, makes law on claims of defrauded creditors.

Six Year Delay in Serving a Complaint Is Ok, GM’s Bankruptcy Judge Rules

GM case will decide applicability of ‘safe harbor’ to interest payments on debt securities.

Accepting the Earmarking Doctrine: Courts Should Accept This Defense to Preference Actions in Connection with Credit Card Transfers

Seventh Circuit Broadens ‘Ordinary Course’ Defense to Benefit Suppliers

Seventh Circuit lauds Judge Lane’s Quebecor World preference opinion.

Third Circuit Insulates the IRS from Preference Claims for Trust Fund Taxes

Aggregation was not permitted to surmount the $6,225 minimum for preferences.

Judge Writes a Treatise on Provisional Overdrafts and Preferences

No debt, and thus no preference, arises until after the midnight deadline.

Preference Action Mock Hearing

Preferences for Dummies

A New Reading of the Ordinary Course of Business Exception in Section 547(c)(2)

17th Annual Great Debates