The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a petition for writ of certiorari in Bank of America v. Sinkfield, an 11th Circuit case raising the issue whether a junior lien wholly unsupported by collateral value can be stripped off in chapter 7. ... Read full article
I’m on my way to the Choice of Law in Cross-Border Bankruptcy Cases symposium at Brooklyn Law School that Susan Block-Lieb mentioned in her post earlier this week, so I have Chapter 15 on the brain. ... Read full article
Am I the only one who didn't know that the National Conference of Commission on Uniform Law recently revised the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act in late 2013? ... Read full article
Get it? Anyway, Law v. Siegel is now out, with a 9-0 opinion that shouldn't surprise anyone. It finally gave Justice Scalia a chance to write a strongly textualist bankruptcy opinion for the Court, getting him out of the gulag of concurrences and ... Read full article
As part of my study of religious organizations' Chapter 11 cases, I interviewed attorneys who represented a variety of churches and other faith-based institutions in their reorganization cases. Some of my findings are presented in this new paper . In ... Read full article
Harvard Law School's Bankruptcy Roundtable , a dialogue between academics and practitioners, is now in the blogosphere! The Roundtable has launched with a number of very substantive posts by Douglas Baird and Anthony Casey; Judge Sontchi; Thomas ... Read full article
On behalf of the Credit Slips bloggers, I want to extend our sympathy to the family and friends of Professor Ted Eisenberg who passed away suddenly on Sunday. Ted worked in the areas of civil rights, the death penalty, and bankruptcy. He also was a ... Read full article
Chapter 15’s modified universalism structure requires cooperation between courts in different countries as well as tolerance for outcome differences under different bankruptcy laws. While in general it’s fair to say U.S. courts have been cooperative and ... Read full article
Thank you to the Credit Slips team and, in particular, Bob, for inviting me to guest blog. ... Read full article
I'm thrilled to join Credit Slips as an occasional contributor. As Bob mentioned, my research focuses on religious organizations that file under chapter 11. Based on the approximately 500 religious institutions that filed between 2006 and 2011 (about ... Read full article
As I wrestle with the EBIA v. ... Read full article
Federal bankruptcy law defers to the states on a critical issue: what is the basic minimum income and property that debtors need not surrender to creditors. Four states protect 100% of workers' wages, while 21 states allow creditors to garnish ... Read full article
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Some thoughts on Detroit in chapter 9, at Dealb%k . ... Read full article
