Rochelle's Daily Wire

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

Motions for fees must be made within 14 days of the entry of judgment.

To revisit denial of a lift-stay motion, the prior order denying modification of the stay isn’t required to say ‘without prejudice.’

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

Deciding a bankruptcy appeal, the Sixth Circuit deepened an existing circuit split on time limitations for Rule 60(b)(4) motions.

New York’s Judge Sean Lane saw no reason for forcing holders of a $148 million defamation judgment ‘to wait years’ for a ‘modest distribution.’

Having previously set aside a $240,000 sanction as criminal contempt, the Fifth Circuit affirmed $450,000 in civil contempt against the same contemnor in the same bankruptcy case.

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.

To resolve a circuit split, the Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a trustee can sue the government to recover a fraudulent transfer under state law when sovereign immunity would bar an ‘actual creditor’ from suing.

The Second Circuit gives competitors license to mount false advertising unless it’s ‘virtually certain’ to affect a debtor’s customer contracts or goodwill.