Fifth Circuit didn’t permit plan proponents to structure a chapter 11 plan so that an appeal would be equitably moot.

The Fifth Circuit declines to adopt a securities industry guidebook for what’s a permissible financing.

A district judge in Ohio declined to sit as an appellate court by deciding whether a bankruptcy court in another state had properly ‘spread’ the automatic stay.

A corporate debtor with no income and no operating business could convert an involuntary chapter 7 case to Subchapter V of chapter 11.

To obtain a judgment lien, filing a UCC financing statement is no substitute for docketing a judgment.

Bartenwerfer held to make a debt nondischargeable as to someone who was neither a partner nor an agent.

A deficiency judgment resulting from mortgage foreclosure is not ‘a judgment arising out of a mortgage foreclosure’ and can be avoided as a judgment lien.

‘Obtained by’ legal proceedings, a consent judgment is still a judgment lien that can be avoided if it impairs an exemption.

Good faith and attention to detail should enable a failing business to avoid WARN Act liability.

The Ninth Circuit BAP eased the burden on debtors needing to prove that a lender violated Section 524(i) by failing to credit payments made under a plan.