Rochelle's Daily Wire

Two North Carolina Courts have held within two months that the Bankruptcy Clause doesn’t demand ‘financial distress’ to establish subject matter jurisdiction.

Can Section 327(c) be unconstitutional as applied if it deprives shareholders of standing when the estate might be solvent?

Absent a provision in the plan to the contrary, creditors aren’t given estate assets recovered after the final plan payment.

A vulgarity directed at the debtor wasn’t a stay violation absent an act designed to collect a debt.

Bifurcated fee arrangements are cumbersome, temporary fixes for a problem that the Supreme Court created in Lamie.

Taggart doesn’t give more protection to a purchaser of debt than it does to the original creditor, Judge Scott Grossman says.

Despite consent by the firm to withdraw the reference of motions to disgorge its fees, a bankruptcy judge in Houston recommended against withdrawal to district court and against transfer to another district.

Several justices seemed to believe that ‘prospective relief’ is sufficient to remedy the due process violation because the alternatives are ineffective.

Bankruptcy Judge Whitley says that a no-opt-out plan for a solvent debtor might violate creditors’ due process and jury trial rights.

We focus on ethics two days in a row, given the recent disturbing events in Houston.