Rochelle's Daily Wire

The opinion by Circuit Judge Thomas Ambro reads Jevic as animating the solvent-debtor exception to the disallowance of unmatured interest.

The Eighth Circuit had held that a debtor has an ‘inchoate’ property interest in avoidance actions before bankruptcy, but Judge Collins ruled that a lender can’t have a lien.

Second Circuit leaves open the question of whether a trustee can sell a ‘general’ or ‘derivative’ claim that’s subject to a valid lien held by a creditor.

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

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

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

A Supreme Court nonbankruptcy decision means there is no right to a jury trial in the claims-allowance process in bankruptcy.

The district court shouldn’t have substituted its own judgment for the bankruptcy court’s conclusion about what’s equitable, Tenth Circuit says.

Tort claims are usually unliquidated, but a contract claim is liquidated if it’s precisely determinable by agreement or operation of law, Judge Lori Vaughan says.

Eighth Circuit holds that a chapter 13 debtor, not the trustee, has standing to bring personal injury claims.