Rochelle's Daily Wire

Discharge was violated, but sanctions are likely out of reach.

Judge Grossman finds a way to grant allowances of compensation for services performed before the entry of a retention order.

The Ninth Circuit may be backing off from Ybarra, a case that waives discharge for attorneys’ fees if the debtor ‘returns to the fray.’

Judge Shefferly writes a complicated opinion on the retroactivity of the HAVEN Act to cases filed prior to enactment.

Pending adversary proceedings don’t preclude a finding that the chapter 11 case has been ‘fully administered,’ thus allowing entry of a final decree and cutting off further fees owing to the U.S. Trustee Program.

Because the SBRA’s foundation is chapter 11, the new statute may be applied constitutionally to rights or property interests arising before enactment.

Courts are split on whether a personal guaranty survives bankruptcy.

Taggart allows a court to deny a contempt motion without deciding whether the creditor’s action actually violated the discharge injunction.

Despite the high court’s ban on nunc pro tunc orders, may bankruptcy courts make their orders retroactive?

Bankruptcy Judge Scott Clarkson of Santa Ana, Calif., issued the first reported decision on the new small business reorganization law that became effective on February 19.