Rochelle's Daily Wire

Criminal activities of an agent don’t take the agent’s actions outside of the scope of authority.

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

Bankruptcy Judge Paul Bonapfel differed with two judges in Houston by holding that a nonaccepting class in Subchapter V means that a plan must be confirmed in cramdown.

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

In practical effect, the Second Circuit’s opinion means that a chapter 7 debtor may never appeal denial of a motion to dismiss a petition.

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

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.

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 majority in the Fourth Circuit based a bright-line rule on the presence of the word ‘the’ in Section 327(a).