December 21, 2021
Being an ordinary employee didn’t mean that the debtor was engaged in business to qualify for Subchapter V.
October 14, 2021
Pennsylvania’s Judge Conway hints that failure to stop proceedings after bankruptcy can be an automatic stay violation, even after Fulton.
March 29, 2021
Splitting with the Sixth Circuit, Pittsburgh district judge rules that a FLSA suit falls within the ‘police and regulatory’ exception to the automatic stay.
January 11, 2021
Finding a proper exercise of regulatory power isn’t required to invoke the exception to the automatic stay.
November 20, 2020
Sometimes, being too aggressive backfires when the defendant files bankruptcy.
October 9, 2020
A gaming license in Pennsylvania is a revocable ‘privilege.’
January 8, 2020
Sovereign immunity required dismissal of a suit to recover the value of a gambling license because the suit wasn’t an ancillary exercise of the bankruptcy court’s in rem jurisdiction over a res.
October 28, 2019
States have no sovereign immunity defense to lien stripping, even if the state has not filed a proof of claim.
June 13, 2019
The right of indemnification by a bankrupt isn’t establishing ‘related to’ jurisdiction in federal court.
The right of indemnification by a bankrupt isn’t establishing ‘related to’ jurisdiction in federal court.