consumer bankruptcy

The Daily Docket: Energy Future Bankruptcy to Stay in Delaware

05/23/14

Energy Future Holdings Corp.’s $42 billion bankruptcy will remain in Delaware, a judge said Thursday, dashing the hopes of unhappy creditors who wanted to see the big Chapter 11 case moved to the company’s home state of Texas. The Wall Street Journal has the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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Bankruptcy Lawyer Calls Niche Practice ‘Misunderstood’

04/15/14

Bankruptcy attorney James Selbach is used to being told he’s overreacting.

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Bankruptcy Lawyer Calls Niche Practice ‘Misunderstood’

04/15/14

Bankruptcy attorney James Selbach is used to being told he’s overreacting.

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Bankruptcy Lawyer Calls Niche Practice ‘Misunderstood’

04/15/14

Bankruptcy attorney James Selbach is used to being told he’s overreacting.

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Reflections on the Dark Side

04/02/14

Thanks to all who commented on my earlier post on the interaction of §§ 544(a)(3) and 551 and homeownership in bankruptcy; as hoped, CreditSlip readers helped me frame the questions that I continue to have about Traverse and the larger policy questions it raises.

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Supreme Court denies certiorari in Sinkfield (chapter 7 lien strip-off case)

04/01/14

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. 

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Sousa on Bankruptcy Stigma

03/18/14

If you are looking for trite and oversimplified assertions about bankruptcy stigma, then stay away from the latest issue of the American Bankruptcy Law Journal. In those pages, Professor Michael Sousa from the University of Denver has a wonderful paper reporting on his interviews with consumer bankruptcy debtors in Colorado. You can find a preprint version of the paper on SSRN.

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