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Filing Alert: Sentinel Group Holdings Chapter 11    Bondoro Read full article

Filing Alert: Meritage Hospitality Group Chapter 11    Bondoro Read full article

Oxford group presses town to intervene in Robert Morris Inn bankruptcy case    wboc.com Read full article

Wendy’s Franchisee Meritage Hospitality Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy    Law Commentary Read full article

Alcohol Co. Republic National Gets OK For $14.5M Ch. Read full article

What's Happening In Bankruptcy Court This Coming Week    Law360 Read full article

Meet The Attorneys Guiding AirBaltic Through Ch. 11    Law360 Read full article

SoHo Building Can Keep Control Of Chapter 11 Case    Law360 Read full article

Simply Interior Gets OK For Litigation, Wind-Down Ch. Read full article

Gambling Debt and Bankruptcy: What Are Your Options?    Legal Reader Read full article

Ever since Stern v. Marshall , bankruptcy lawyers are frequently asked to consent to entry of final orders by the Bankruptcy Court. I routinely agree to consent because the Bankruptcy Court is a familiar forum and the judges are a known quantity. Occasionally I will say no for strategic reasons. Read full article

 A recent Fifth Circuit opinion brought back memories of a case I was involved with as a young lawyer. The lesson to be learned is that debtors are required to appear for a hearing on a complaint objecting to discharge regardless of whether they have been subpoenaed. Fed.R.Bankr.P. 4002(a)(2) Read full article

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A motion to lift the automatic stay to allow a tort claimant to proceed against the debtor's insurance coverage is one of the simpler pleadings to file in bankruptcy. Because insurance involves a third party's obligation to defend a suit or pay claims, property of the estate is not implicated. Read full article

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 The Fifth Circuit has long applied judicial estoppel aggressively when a debtor fails to list a cause of action. It once held (in a panel opinion overruled by the en banc court) that a trustee was bound by a debtor's failure to disclose assets. Reed v. City of Arlington , 620 F.3d 477 (5th Cir. Read full article

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