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Third Circuit Makes More Rules on the Proper Scope of Asbestos Channeling Injunctions

The Third Circuit made more rules to decide whether an insurance company can be insulated from failure-to-warn claims by the channeling injunction in a chapter 11 ‘asbestos’ plan.
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Good Faith Is No Defense to an Allegedly Willful Stay Violation, Third Circuit Says

Lack of authority on point is no defense to a willful violation of the automatic stay, according to the Third Circuit.
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Pawn Loans May Be Modified in Chapter 13 if There Wasn’t a Default Before Filing

Eleventh Circuit limits its own precedent to say that pawn lenders aren’t entirely immune from bankruptcy.
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‘Cert’ Petitions Raise Equitable Mootness and Federal Preemption in the Supreme Court

‘Cert’ petitions presenting two bankruptcy issues worthy of review by the Supreme Court will be considered by the justices at the ‘long conference’ on September 27.

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