Because a right of redemption does not give rise to a claim, Section 1322(b) doesn’t enable a debtor to redeem foreclosed property when the right of redemption has expired.

A district court in Minnesota left the door open for sometimes compelling debtors to arbitrate claims arising in a bankruptcy case.

In New Jersey, a trustee’s hypothetical judicial lien has priority over a judgment lien if the judgment lienholder has not made a levy on the property.

Bankruptcy Judge David Cleary wrote a manual on how a company can be ‘bankruptcy remote’ without violating public policy.

Long Island’s Judge Grossman warns lawyers that they may be paid nothing if they file chapter 11 cases just to delay a secured creditor, with no legitimate strategy for selling the property, refinancing or confirming a plan.

Delaware district court rules that debtors and trustees alone have standing to propose spending estate money outside of the ‘ordinary course.’

The ‘ordinary course’ defense only applies to credit terms with healthy customers, not to debtors in financial distress, even if pressure is ordinary in the industry.

A district court in New Jersey says that a discretionary fee award is neither a bonus nor an enhancement.

A receiver was tagged $45,000 for failing to turn over estate property by demanding payment of administrative fees.

If there’s a constructive trust on property in the debtor’s name, the debtor was only the trustee of the constructive trust and had no legal interest in the property.