In practical effect, the Second Circuit’s opinion means that a chapter 7 debtor may never appeal denial of a motion to dismiss a petition.

A Supreme Court nonbankruptcy decision means there is no right to a jury trial in the claims-allowance process in bankruptcy.

The tide is turning against corporate Sub V debtors. Two bankruptcy judges now side with two circuits in holding that debts of corporate debtors can be nondischargeable.

Motions for fees must be made within 14 days of the entry of judgment.

To revisit denial of a lift-stay motion, the prior order denying modification of the stay isn’t required to say ‘without prejudice.’

The district court shouldn’t have substituted its own judgment for the bankruptcy court’s conclusion about what’s equitable, Tenth Circuit says.

Deciding a bankruptcy appeal, the Sixth Circuit deepened an existing circuit split on time limitations for Rule 60(b)(4) motions.

The majority in the Fourth Circuit based a bright-line rule on the presence of the word ‘the’ in Section 327(a).

Claiming 100% of FMV didn’t enable debtors to exempt more than the statutory cap when there had been no objection to the exemption claim.

Tyler was applied retroactively because the debtor’s efforts to set aside a tax foreclosure judgment were ‘in the pipeline’ when bankruptcy began.