Rochelle's Daily Wire

Bankruptcy court evicted a debtor from his residence because he didn’t qualify for the Covid-19 moratoria.

A lawyer queasy about a client’s decision to assume a lease can’t invoke the court’s scrutiny by making an application to reaffirm the debt under Section 524(c), Judge Hursh says.

Tenth Circuit majority believes that the grant or denial of an exemption is sufficient to make the order final, even if the bankruptcy court hasn’t ruled on the extent or amount of the exemption.

Circuit Judge Sutton shied away from making a wife liable for her husband’s debts, even though the wife carried on the husband’s farming business.

The Supreme Court and the Sixth Circuit both questioned the continuing validity of doctrines of prudential standing, such as ‘person aggrieved.’

The debtors’ lawyer’s lack of diligence allowed the creditor to invoke laches and beat a belated motion to avoid a lien that impaired a homestead exemption.

Car owners lost in Fulton but won when a Chicago district judge affirmed and ruled that debtors may avoid judicial liens on impounded cars.

Are there two tests for the existence of a claim, one test for claims against the debtor and another for claims by the debtor?

The appeals court sticks to basics and rejects several clever arguments to beat a preference.

A contested matter in bankruptcy court isn’t a ‘civil action’ allowing the debtor to recover attorneys’ fees from the U.S. Trustee under the Equal Access to Justice Act.