Rochelle's Daily Wire

The Affordable Care Act’s ‘individual mandate’ was a tax measured by income, thus giving the IRS a priority tax claim.

Over a dissent, the Eleventh Circuit held that a 1995 chapter 11 plan discharged the liability of ‘related persons’ to pay health care benefits when a coal producer defaulted on the obligation in 2016.

To settle with a trustee, a creditor is not required to volunteer damaging information.

The City of Chicago argued unsuccessfully that liens on cars are statutory because they arise automatically when the car is impounded.

Circuit refuses to make an exception for trustees regarding the judge-made doctrine of in pari delicto.

Authorities are split on whether avoidance actions are estate property that can be sold or can only be prosecuted by the trustee.

In a nonprecedential opinion, the Fifth Circuit suggests that a mortgage that could be reformed in state court cannot be reformed in bankruptcy.

Due process considerations mean it’s not harmless error if a debtor was denied standing improperly.

Being branded as a creditor is like a tattoo; it won’t ever come off.

A question may be headed to the Sixth Circuit, where debtors hope to create a circuit split.