November 20, 2024
Ninth Circuit BAP says there is no due process problem with denial of chapter 13 trustee fees if dismissal precedes confirmation.
November 19, 2024
Reversing the bankruptcy court, the Chicago district judge follows the Fourth and Fifth Circuits and rejects a contrary holding by the Ninth Circuit BAP.
November 18, 2024
Although a ‘true-up’ cannot be imposed, a debtor could employ a ‘true-up’ to confirm an otherwise nonconfirmable plan.
November 15, 2024
District judge decides that an individual debtor has standing to appeal conversion from Subchapter V of chapter 11 to chapter 7.
November 14, 2024
4th Circuit , Maryland ,
Bankruptcy Judge Michelle Harner decided that a mortgage servicer must allow a chapter 13 debtor’s continued use of an online payment platform.
November 13, 2024
A bankruptcy judge in New Jersey holds that it’s enough to file a notice of intention to assume before the automatic lease rejection deadline
November 12, 2024
When a trustee mistakenly seizes a nondebtor’s property, the Barton doctrine by itself doesn’t protect the trustee, but judicial immunity does.
November 11, 2024
3rd Circuit , Delaware ,
District judge in Delaware says that expert testimony must establish whether standard deviation is a proper statistical test to prove the ‘ordinary course’ defense to a preference.
November 8, 2024
A per curiam decision from the Seventh Circuit raises the question of whether Truck Insurance overruled ‘person aggrieved’ sub silentio.
November 7, 2024
A district court in Houston denied a motion to dismiss a confirmation appeal as equitably moot, although reversal might alter ownership of the reorganized debtor.