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January 27, 2020

Sixth Circuit upholds dismissal of claims for reverse veil piercing and reverse alter ego.

January 17, 2020

A creditor lost a dischargeability suit by failing to call the right witnesses to prove that a lawyer’s trust account was used to hide assets.

January 10, 2020

A nonprecedential opinion applies Fifth Circuit authority to achieve a result that’s equitable for the debtor and creditors, and maybe also for a personal injury defendant.

December 10, 2019

Saying she is in the minority in her district, a new Delaware judge ruled that allowing creditors to opt out won’t permit a plan to impose nonconsensual, third-party releases.

December 4, 2019

Eighth Circuit was compelled to overrule its own precedent that permitted the bankruptcy court to bar a debtor from amending schedules based on bad faith.

November 22, 2019

The claim of a member of a creditors’ committee was subordinated because she evaded disclosure that her claims would consume the entire estate.

November 20, 2019

The ‘fugitive disentitlement doctrine’ does not allow a federal court to dismiss an appeal because of a fugitive’s contempt of a state court order, the First Circuit rules.

November 5, 2019

An ambiguous demand letter violated the discharge injunction, but the lender was not held in contempt in light of Taggart.

November 1, 2019

Ninth Circuit BAP says that payment of a secured claim in full automatically terminates the underlying lien, even if the plan doesn’t say so explicitly.

October 23, 2019

The debtors didn’t have a great case for a stay violation after filing six chapter 13 petitions and living rent-free for five years.