News Topic: Religion

The practice of mindfulness and other types of meditation are growing on the coasts and within the law school and lawyer communities. Perhaps these practices can provide meaningful benefits to bankruptcy clients, bankruptcy lawyers and bankruptcy ... Read full article

A few weeks ago, Marie Reilly (Penn State Law, University Park) posted to SSRN a new paper, Catholic Dioceses in Bankruptcy , which details the outcomes of the eighteen chapter 11 cases filed by Catholic dioceses and religious institutes since 2004. ... Read full article

It's Tax Day! When the new tax bill was debated late last year, a few reports noted an unintended consequence of the bill's expansion of the standard deduction might be decrease people's charitable contributions, in turn harming nonprofits. ... Read full article

Saudi Arabia's King Salman has approved a new bankruptcy law. { Download Saudi BK final 2-2018 } Commentators have ... Read full article

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Not only are religious organizations still filing under chapter 11. As in prior years, they continue to file under chapter 11 in line with fluctuations in consumer bankruptcy filings. Find a couple graphs below to show this. But first, some background. ... Read full article

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Credit Slips  blogger Pamela Foohey has a new article on SSRN, "Lender Discrimination, Black Churches, and Bankruptcy."  This paper builds on her previous work about churches in bankruptcy to dig into the demographics of which churches end up in ... Read full article

The Archdiocese of Milwaukee filed its chapter 11 petition on January 4, 2011. Yesterday, four years and ten months later, Bankruptcy Judge Susan Kelley confirmed the dioceses' reorganization plan. During those four plus years, the most contentious ... Read full article

Since 2004, 12 Catholic dioceses have filed under Chapter 11. The latest case is that of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, which filed in January 2015. The claims bar date is set for August 3. How should the Archdiocese go about notifying ... Read full article

The Archdiocese of Milwaukee’s Chapter 11 case remains the longest running Chapter 11 case filed by an Archdiocese or other Catholic entity. It filed in January 2011, and because of religious-based objections to the application of the Code's ... Read full article

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The Archdiocese of Milwaukee is one of 11 dioceses (plus 2 other Catholic-affiliated religious orders) to file under Chapter 11 -- and it likely will not be the last . All of the cases were filed in hopes of achieving global settlements of sexual abuse ... Read full article

Paul Krugman has a column today about the blind, fundamentalist faith in efficient markets.  This is a phenomenon that Stephen Lubben and I have been discussing recently (did Krugman just preempt our paper idea?), as we've both encountered it in the ... 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

Those of us struggling with the issues raised by payday and title loans are consistently told to take morality out of the equation when considering these loans. ... Read full article

Sticker in San Francisco: "Of course it's cash-only, it's the Mission." Overheard: "Oooh, yeah, no, we don't take cards. Because the coffee is, like, local?" (both items courtesy Lana Swartz ) ... Read full article