Raising a Circuit Split, Ninth Circuit’s Taggart Opinion Heads for a ‘Cert’ Petition
BAP opinion shows that contempt is virtually impossible to prove in the Ninth Circuit following Taggart.
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Circuits Split on Sovereign Immunity and Emotional Distress Damages for a Stay Violation
Ninth Circuit splits with the First on the interpretation of Section 106(a).
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Update Regarding Automatic Stay and Discharge Issues
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Chicago Must Return Impounded Cars Immediately After a Chapter 13 Filing
Judge Thorne rules that exceptions to the automatic stay do not allow the City of Chicago to retain possession of impounded cars.
First Circuit Gives Puerto Rico Bondholders a Second Bite at the Apple
Puerto Rico’s toll road bonds don’t have statutory liens, circuit court rules.
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A Convert Joins the Minority Interpretation of the Repeat-Filing Stay Termination
Bankruptcy Judge Colleen A. Brown of Burlington, Vt., changes her position on Section 362(c)(3)(A).
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Sixth Circuit Expounds on a Loophole in the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine
Bankruptcy court may overrule a state court that rules incorrectly on the discharge of a debt.
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Benchnotes August 2018
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