A homestead can be protected from collection of a nondischargeable debt, limiting the judgment creditor to attaching nonexempt property.

Fancy drafting by ‘brilliant financiers and lawyers,’ the judge said, didn’t validate an uptier transaction when the ‘effect’ was to release collateral without a two-thirds vote.

The self-insured retention can prevent a creditor from using the insurer exception to sue the insurance company with the debtor as a nominal defendant.

The ‘billing approach,’ not the ‘accrual approach,’ decides whether there is a priority claim for personal property and real estate leases more than 60 days after filing.

Delaware judge wouldn’t allow a chapter 11 debtor to restructure the same secured debt a second time in a different venue.

Washington, D.C.’s Judge Gunn describes the procedures to employ for approval and operation of an ‘evergreen’ retainer in chapter 11.

When third parties sued a trust created by a confirmed chapter 11 plan, Judge Garrity declined to invent any new exceptions to the Barton doctrine.

The Fifth Circuit undertook a legal analysis of a complex loan agreement to decide there was no ‘fair ground of doubt’ under Taggart that the lender was violating the discharge injunction.

The existence of a competing bidder does not put the buyer on notice of an ‘adverse interest’ to avoid dismissal for mootness under Section 363(m), the Sixth Circuit BAP says.

For a sale ‘free and clear,’ nondebtors can be enjoined from suing.