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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

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Although not always acknowledged expressly, exceptionalism is pervasive in bankruptcy scholarship. Some work makes no attempt to contexualize bankruptcy within the federal courts, apparently assuming its unique qualities (for example, the disinterest in ... Read full article

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The Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities held a symposium on " Courts: Representing and Contesting Ideologies of the Public Sphere " in 2011, and recently published papers from this event. ... Read full article

A  prior post  addressed a proposed amendment to Article 9's official comments stating that the date of an Article 9 filing relates back to the initial filing date even if the debtor did NOT authorize the filing at that time. This post returns to ... Read full article

A few weeks ago I wrote about the importance of giving priority to an Article 9 financing statement only from the date on which the debtor  actually authorizes the filing, and a proposed official comment contrary to this position . My colleague Lissa ... Read full article

On January 1, 2011, Larry files a UCC-1 financing statement against David indicating David's equipment as collateral. At this point, David doesn't even know Larry, has not given him a security interest, and has not authorized this ... Read full article

I get this question regularly (weekly) from  a lot from Montana small business owners who are considering small business or personal bankruptcy. The answer is: it depends. For many Montana small business owners the line between personal and business ... Read full article

Just a word of gratitude to readers for providing great responses to the prior call for corporate bankruptcy lingo . Thanks to your help, UNC Law's advanced business bankruptcy students are collaboratively examining such terms through a wiki and this ... Read full article

The latest GDP figures released this morning by the Office of National Statistics show a contraction of the UK's economy for the last quarter of 2010 by 0.5%.This is despite forecasters expecting growth of between 0.2%-0.6%. ... Read full article

If you are looking new car for your personal use, office use & other use or you have no good credit for buy new car but you have need a car then you have used car is a second option. Because most of people are purchase used car for personal use because ... Read full article

Thanks, Bob, for welcoming me back. I'd like to start with a quick poll. Credit Slips readers, off the top of your head, what short writings (say 5 pages or fewer) should law students be doing that would be directly relevant to business bankruptcy ... Read full article

Small Business Debts & Bankruptcy Your business is in trouble and you want to know whether filing personal bankruptcy is necessary or whether you can just walk away without fear of your creditors chasing behind you. First thing first, identify whether ... Read full article

An excellent article from the legal website JD Supra about Small Business Bankruptcy and debts. It is very important to always give complete information to your bankruptcy attorney about who is responsible for the debt of your business.  For example, did ... Read full article