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Bankruptcy Tweets for April 2011 - Part III

05/01/11

Below are my twitter posts since my last post on April 17 of recent cases that I think you'll find of interest.  RSS Feeds are also available:

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Bankruptcy Tweets for April 2011 - Part II

04/17/11

More reported bankruptcy decisions now than any time ever.  30-70 decisions a day being reported compared to 10-25 in past years, with probably double or triple the number of commercial decisions coming down than before. 

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Bankruptcy Tweets for April 2011 - Part I

04/11/11

I attached this New Yorker cartoon to my first blog post in October 2005.  Blogging, however, really doesn't lend itself to incessant barking.  Tweeting does.  Back then, I wrote:

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Bankruptcy Tweets for March 2011

03/31/11

Too busy to blog, but still trying to tweet cases daily that I think you'll find of interest (and perhaps even helpful to one of your current cases).  RSS Feeds are also available.  These are my tweets since my last blog post at the end of January:

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Bankruptcy Tweets for the Week Ending 1/31/2011

01/31/11

Here are my tweets for this past week, though expanded into plain english.  RSS Feeds are also available for those wanting them individually organized:

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Bankruptcy Tweets for the Week Ending 1/26/2011

01/26/11

Here are my tweets for this past week, though expanded into plain english.  RSS Feeds are also available for those seeking instant gratification:

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Justice Scalia Won't "Ransom" His Principles to Grant Justice Kagan a Unanimous First Opinion That Looks to BAPCPA's "Text, Context, and Purpose" to Support a Dubious Result

01/23/11

When reading recent US Supreme Court opinions interpreting BAPCPA, the statute's manifest flaws are the "elephant in the room" (origins of phrase here), and Justice Kagan's recent opinion for the Court in Ransom v. FIA Card Services , N.A, No.

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Treatment of IP Licenses in Bankruptcy: An Updated 2011 PLI Seminar Outline

12/09/10

Last year I spent about 75 hours creating an outline on the treatment of intellectual property licenses in bankruptcy for a PLI seminar, which I published here. 

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7th Circuit Shows How "An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure"

09/03/10

Busy lawyers often assume that it's ok to skip a ministerial presentment hearing and await the Court's order scheduling a hearing on the merits.  Today's opinion from the 7th Circuit in United States v.

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Yra Harris on How BAPCPA Has "Flown Back in the Banks' Faces Good and Hard"

08/26/10

With little fanfare, Yra Harris, a veteran trader of Chicago's pits, started blogging his Notes From the Underground last December.  I learned about it last month from a good friend of his, and strongly recommend it to you.  Yra is a frequent guest commentator on CNBC, and one of the smarter guys in the room.

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