Rochelle's Daily Wire

Reversing the bankruptcy court, the Chicago district judge follows the Fourth and Fifth Circuits and rejects a contrary holding by the Ninth Circuit BAP.

Sixth Circuit held that preferring one creditor with a nondischargeable claim before bankruptcy isn’t intent to hinder, delay or defraud.

In a split decision, the Ninth Circuit majority held that a chapter 13 debtor has the right to dismiss under Section 1307(b) before the bankruptcy court decides whether the filing was in good faith.

Revesting allowed chapter 13 debtors to retain property that was innocently undisclosed.

Professors disagree on whether latent asbestos claims can be discharged without a trust for future claimants.

Chicago’s Bankruptcy Judge Timothy Barnes explained eight years ago why bankruptcy stays do not require personal jurisdiction, unlike injunctions in receiverships.

Fifth Circuit says that the court must have obtained personal jurisdiction over a third party in a receivership to enforce an injunction. Is the same true for the automatic stay and the discharge injunction in bankruptcy? Is there no injunction before there’s personal jurisdiction?

Defensive setoff rights are not discharged by chapter 11 confirmation, even when no proof of claim was filed.

The tide is turning against corporate Sub V debtors. Two bankruptcy judges now side with two circuits in holding that debts of corporate debtors can be nondischargeable.

The Ninth Circuit BAP rebelled against the Supreme Court’s departure from the statute in Kelly v. Robinson on dischargeability under Section 523(a)(7).