Rochelle's Daily Wire

Part-time self-employment, coupled with debt from a defunct business, qualified the debtor for reorganization under Subchapter V of chapter 11.

The Second Circuit split with the Fourth and Fifth Circuits by holding that the increase in fees for the U.S. Trustee system was unconstitutional because it was not imposed simultaneously in the two states with bankruptcy administrators.

Filing a chapter 15 petition wasn’t required for a U.S. district court to dismiss a civil action against a German company undergoing insolvency in Germany.

When drafting a statute, Congress cannot ‘think of every single esoteric possibility,’ Judge Mignault says.

Courts are split on whether having nondischargeable debts gives an individual chapter 7 debtor standing to object to claims.

Filing bankruptcy to gain a ‘litigation advantage’ in the N.Y. Attorney General’s dissolution action meant the chapter 11 petition was not filed in good faith and must be dismissed, Judge Harlan Hale rules.

Not having challenged pre-petition liens on time, a chapter 7 trustee was barred from taking over an adversary proceeding initiated by a now-dissolved chapter 11 creditors’ committee.

Judge Colton decided that class claims aren’t prohibited in Subchapter V cases but didn’t allow a class claim in the case before her.

Section 1326(a)(2) by itself does not bar garnishment of funds held by a trustee on dismissal before confirmation.

First Circuit won’t allow a debtor to dismiss and avoid the consequences of abusive conduct.