News Topic: US Supreme Court Cases

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Last week I published a blog post on the US Supreme Court's unanimous decision in ... Read full article

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In a 28 page opinion, Judge Sacca of the Northern District of Georgia held that Bankruptcy Courts have jurisdiction to enter final orders in some cases involving fraudulent transfer claims. Mitchell v. Banks, Adv. Proc. No. 12-0562, 2013 Bankr. LEXIS 2384 ... Read full article

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Last week I published a blog post on the US Supreme Court's unanimous decision in ... Read full article

In a case appealed from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals , the United States Supreme Court ruled on a case involving the definition of "defalcation" in 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(4) .  The case, decided yesterday, May 13, 2013, is Randy Bullock v. ... Read full article

In a case appealed from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals , the United States Supreme Court ruled on a case involving the definition of "defalcation" in 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(4) .  The case, decided yesterday, May 13, 2013, is Randy Bullock v. ... Read full article

As I noted three years ago in my " What's Bothering Ruthie ? " post on Justice Ginsburg's one-liner that stopped the Chrysler sale dead in its tracks, today's Supreme Court oral argument in RadLAX Gateway Hotel, LLC v. ... Read full article

Chicago bankruptcy professionals descended on the US Supreme Court to catch the final chapter in the RadLAX bankruptcy saga, one that had a remarkably swift journey to the highest court of the land.  The case started as the neglected stepchild of ... Read full article

In my last post , I wondered whether the Court's decision in Stern v. ... Read full article

6/24/11 Update:  Here's my blog post providing an early analysis of the Court's decision, entitled US Supreme Court's Bombshell Opinion in Stern v. ... Read full article

In my last post , I posited whether the Court's decision in Stern v. ... Read full article

Three or four more opinion days before the United States Supreme Court's term closes.  Sixteen opinions have yet to be delivered.  But if a lifelong, diehard, Bronx-born Yankee fan, Justice Sotomayor (who some say saved baseball), is willing to sport ... Read full article

  Milavetz, Gallop & Milavetz, P.A. v. United States , No. 08-1119 (March 9, 2010) ( click here for opinion ). The majority opinion was written by Justice Sotomayor.   Justices Scalia and Thomas filed opinions concurring in part in the opinion, and ... Read full article

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 , ... Read full article