May 29, 2024
Eleventh Circuit seems to hold that a mortgage on any property with a principal residence can’t be modified even if the principal use of the property is commercial.
May 6, 2024
Federal Rule 60(b) can’t ‘end run’ Section 1144, Bankruptcy Judge Kimball holds.
April 18, 2024
Three Eleventh Circuit Judges would have their appeals court sit en banc to stop dismissing for lack of standing when dismissal should be resulting from failure to state a claim under state law.
April 8, 2024
For the time being, the Eleventh Circuit has split with the Second Circuit on whether a chapter 15 debtor must have property in the U.S. to gain foreign recognition.
March 19, 2024
The Supreme Court’s narrowing of Rooker-Feldman is showing up in circuit court opinions.
February 22, 2024
If a confirmation order is found not to be equitably moot on appeal, the debtor can’t raise equitable mootness again on remand.
January 19, 2024
District court rules that proceeds from a postpetition personal injury claim are ‘additional disposable income’ that ordinarily goes to creditors in a chapter 13 plan.
January 18, 2024
Taggart doesn’t give more protection to a purchaser of debt than it does to the original creditor, Judge Scott Grossman says.
January 11, 2024
Bankruptcy court disregards SEC regulations defining ‘voting securities’ in deciding whether a Subchapter V debtor has ‘affiliates’ in bankruptcy.
December 11, 2023
Some authority from the Supreme Court suggests that a contempt order without imposition of attorneys’ fees would not be final in a bankruptcy case.