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Court records reveal how much families lost in case of embattled Pinellas special needs trust company - AOL

03/18/2024 Court records reveal how much families lost in case of embattled Pinellas special needs trust company  AOL [more]
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Genesis Gets OK For $21M Deal To End SEC Crypto Loan Suit - Law360

03/18/2024 Genesis Gets OK For $21M Deal To End SEC Crypto Loan Suit  Law360 [more]
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Joann Files for Bankruptcy, Plans To Keep Stores Open - CoStar Group

03/18/2024 Joann Files for Bankruptcy, Plans To Keep Stores Open  CoStar Group [more]
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Voyager Investors Suing Mark Cuban Seek Class Cert. - Law360

03/18/2024 Voyager Investors Suing Mark Cuban Seek Class Cert.  Law360 [more]
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Crypto Lender Genesis Says Its Liquidation Plan Abides by Bankruptcy Rules - The Wall Street Journal

03/18/2024 Crypto Lender Genesis Says Its Liquidation Plan Abides by Bankruptcy Rules  The Wall Street Journal [more]
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Craft Retailer JOANN Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - KHTS Radio

03/18/2024 Craft Retailer JOANN Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy  KHTS Radio [more]
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Trump Spurned by 30 Companies as He Seeks Bond in $454 Million Judgment - The New York Times

03/18/2024 Trump Spurned by 30 Companies as He Seeks Bond in $454 Million Judgment  The New York Times [more]
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Excess Insurer Can Duck Bankruptcy Suit, 2nd Circ. Affirms - Law360

03/18/2024 Excess Insurer Can Duck Bankruptcy Suit, 2nd Circ. Affirms  Law360 [more]
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Lee Spirits files for bankruptcy, halting lawsuit from DRAM - Mountain Mail Newspaper

03/18/2024 Lee Spirits files for bankruptcy, halting lawsuit from DRAM  Mountain Mail Newspaper [more]
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Kirkland Seeks Dismissal as Defendant, Sanctions in Suit Against Former Bankruptcy Judge | Texas Lawyer - Law.com

03/18/2024 Kirkland Seeks Dismissal as Defendant, Sanctions in Suit Against Former Bankruptcy Judge | Texas Lawyer  Law.com [more]
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Blogs

Bankruptcy and Divorce (Vol. 73) – Agreements to Transfer Property

03/14/2024 An entire blog could be devoted to the intersection of Bankruptcy and divorce, but for this post we will look at what happens when a divorce decree (or final settlement agreement) requires that one of the spouses transfer his or her interest in real property to the other spouse, but before the [more]
Tags: Atlanta bankruptcy, Atlanta Bankruptcy Lawyer, bankruptcy, Bankruptcy Blogs, chapter 7, Chapter 7 Trustee, divorce, divorce decree, Georgia bankruptcy, Georgia Bankruptcy Lawyer, GeorgiaBankruptcyBlog, Miscellaneous Cases, Northern District Cases, real property

Section 523(a) Exceptions to Discharge Do Not Apply to Subchapter V Corporate Debtors

02/22/2024 … at least in Judge Sigler’s Court in the Northern District of Georgia. Primary Investments Group, Inc. v. RA Custom Design Inc., 2024 WL 607716, Adv. Proc. No. 23-05193-sms (February 13, 2024). The holding is consistent with most courts that have ruled on the issue, with the exception [more]
Tags: Atlanta bankruptcy, Atlanta Bankruptcy Lawyer, bankruptcy, Bankruptcy Blogs, Chapter 11, discharge, Georgia bankruptcy, Georgia Bankruptcy Lawyer, GeorgiaBankruptcyBlog, Northern District Cases, Subchapter V

The Discharge Injunction – Violations and Damages

02/09/2024 It seems like violations of the discharge injunction get much less publicity than violations of the automatic stay.  Perhaps that is because by the time a discharge is entered the creditor has received the message.  When there is a violation the Eleventh Circuit has a good body of law on [more]
Tags: Atlanta bankruptcy, Atlanta Bankruptcy Lawyer, bankruptcy, Bankruptcy Blogs, chapter 7, Contempt, discharge, Discharge Injunction, Discharge Order, Eleventh Circuit Cases, Georgia bankruptcy, Georgia Bankruptcy Lawyer, GeorgiaBankruptcyBlog, Miscellaneous Cases, Northern District Cases, US Supreme Court Cases

Meet Judge Robinson

01/01/2024 Shad Robinson took the bench as the twelfth bankruptcy judge to serve in the Western District of Texas on February 21, 2023. Judge Robinson, by his own telling, took an unlikely path to law school and practicing bankruptcy law. He is fairly unique among his bankruptcy colleagues in that he practiced [more]
Tags: ATexasBankruptcyLawyersBlog, Bankruptcy Blogs

Supreme Court Strikes Blow for Deciding Cases and Explains What Is Jurisdictional and What Is Not

11/26/2023 Author's Note: I started writing this post in April. My life has been a bit busy this year so I haven't blogged as much as in prior years. If you are already familiar with the holding of Moac Mall Holdings, you may want to skip to the end to the What It Means section.In Justice Ketanji Brown [more]
Tags: 363(m), ATexasBankruptcyLawyersBlog, Bankruptcy Blogs, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, mootness

The Valuation Paradox

10/18/2023 In the program Who Killed the Company? Tips and Trends in Claims and Defenses, Judge Marvin Isgur and his fellow panelists confronted issues such as in pari delicto, insurance coverage and waiver of fiduciary duties. However, one discussion led by Judge Isgur focused on whether solvency should be [more]
Tags: ATexasBankruptcyLawyersBlog, Bankruptcy Blogs, Judge Marvin Isgur, NCBJ 2023, Valuation

NCBJ 2023: The View from Austin

10/15/2023  The National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges came to Austin for its 2023 conference with the slogan Blues, Barbecue and Bankruptcy. Here are some images from the conference.    Sheriff Ronnie King was the Master of Ceremonies for the Conference.   Chief Judge [more]
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Rats! I need a new car and I’m stuck in Chapter 13

09/05/2023 Do You Need to Finance a Car in Chapter 13? The last thing you want to do is get further into debt while you are in Chapter 13.  (The goal of Chapter 13 is to get out of debt.)  But sometimes you need to replace a broken down junker. So, you need financing for a […] The post Rats! I need a [more]
Tags: Bankruptcy Blogs, Blog, chapter 13, Chapter 13 Bankruptcy, NorthernVirginiaBankruptcyAttorneyRobertWeed, Weekly Posts

Creative Destruction in Small Business Bankruptcy

08/29/2023 Two distantly related items caught my eye this morning, as both reinforce the need for "creative destruction" as a response to all-too-common small business failure. The first was a NYT piece on the travails of a female entrepreneur in China. It tells a heart-wrenching story of a system in which the [more]
Tags: Bankruptcy Blogs, Comparative & Int'l Perspectives, CreditSlips, small business

Nondebtor Releases and the Future of Mass Torts

08/18/2023 Certain members of the bankruptcy academy and bar seem to have their knickers in a twist over the Supreme Court’s grant of certiorari to review the nonconsensual nondebtor releases in Purdue. Conventional wisdom is that SCOTUS is going to find that there's no statutory authority whatsoever for [more]
Tags: Bankruptcy Blogs, Corporate Bankruptcy, CreditSlips