Reversing the BAP, the Ninth Circuit held that counsel’s oral waiver of sovereign immunity did not bind the state.

Bankruptcy Judge Michelle Harner held that a wholly unsecured, subordinate lien may be stripped off in chapter 13 even if the lien arose before the debtor owned the property.

Revesting allowed chapter 13 debtors to retain property that was innocently undisclosed.

Criminal activities of an agent don’t take the agent’s actions outside of the scope of authority.

Professors disagree on whether latent asbestos claims can be discharged without a trust for future claimants.

Chicago’s Bankruptcy Judge Timothy Barnes explained eight years ago why bankruptcy stays do not require personal jurisdiction, unlike injunctions in receiverships.

Local rules and local standard plans cannot force a chapter 13 debtor to disregard one of the options in Section 1327 and require revesting of estate assets on discharge.

Fifth Circuit says that the court must have obtained personal jurisdiction over a third party in a receivership to enforce an injunction. Is the same true for the automatic stay and the discharge injunction in bankruptcy? Is there no injunction before there’s personal jurisdiction?

Bankruptcy Judge Paul Bonapfel differed with two judges in Houston by holding that a nonaccepting class in Subchapter V means that a plan must be confirmed in cramdown.

Defensive setoff rights are not discharged by chapter 11 confirmation, even when no proof of claim was filed.