Debtor Not Compelled to Arbitrate Automatic Stay or Discharge Violations
A district court in Minnesota left the door open for sometimes compelling debtors to arbitrate claims arising in a bankruptcy case.
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Fourth Circuit Upholds a $31 Million Default Judgment for Discovery Abuses
Long Island’s Judge Grossman warns lawyers that they may be paid nothing if they file chapter 11 cases just to delay a secured creditor, with no legitimate strategy for selling the property, refinancing or confirming a plan.
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District Courts Disagree on Enforcing an ‘Automatic Stay’ Protecting Nondebtors
A district judge in Ohio declined to sit as an appellate court by deciding whether a bankruptcy court in another state had properly ‘spread’ the automatic stay.
Ninth Circuit Primed to Decide Whether Emotional Distress Damages Survived Taggart
The Ninth Circuit BAP eased the burden on debtors needing to prove that a lender violated Section 524(i) by failing to credit payments made under a plan.
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Bankruptcy Has No General Exception to an Automatic Stay After Denial of Arbitration
A Delaware bankruptcy judge says there could be circumstances when automatic stays will not be enforced after the court has denied a motion to compel arbitration.
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Forcing Sale of a Debtor’s Milk Quota Is No Stay Violation, First Circuit Says, Reversing District Court
The First Circuit applied the ‘collateral order doctrine’ to allow an appeal by the government when a private party would be stuck with a nonappealable, interlocutory order.
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A Magistrate Judge Refuses to Enforce an Order Staying Actions Against Nondebtors
A magistrate judge decided that a bankruptcy court’s order from another district halting suits against nondebtors was unenforceable because it was not an ‘injunction’ made under Section 105(a).