consumer Cases
July 18, 2019
To be nondischargeable, a stipulated judgment must lay out facts showing the debt was incurred by false representation or actual fraud.
July 11, 2019
Some lower courts don’t allow chapter 13 plan payments after five years, but two circuits do.
July 8, 2019
Like physics, bankruptcy searches for a unified theory to explain claims by and against the estate.
July 2, 2019
On an issue dividing the courts, the Seventh Circuit rules that an obligation to repay a domestic support obligation is a dischargeable debt, not a nondischargeable DSO.
July 1, 2019
Circuit Judge Grant explains why an IRA might be exempt under federal law but not exempt under the Florida exemption statute.
July 1, 2019
The BAP avoided making a rule that would have allowed convicted felons to discharge student loans more easily than debtors with clean records.
June 28, 2019
If a lower court buys an argument that’s clearly wrong, is the argument nonetheless ‘objectively reasonable?’ And does Taggart apply to an automatic stay violation?
June 27, 2019
Judge Olson refers a lawyer for civil and criminal investigations after uncovering dozens of unauthorized filings.
June 21, 2019
Disagreeing with the Tenth and D.C. Circuits and siding with four other circuits, the Seventh Circuit rules that passively holding estate property violates the automatic stay.
June 18, 2019
Overruling its own precedent, the Seventh Circuit dismissed an appeal when the appellant had not filed a motion in the appeals court for permission to undertake a direct appeal, even though the bankruptcy court had certified the question to the circuit.