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Chiefs' Rashee Rice Files Chapter 7, Listing Over $3.2 Million Owed    Around Prague Read full article

Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, reports more than $3.45 million in debt    Mezha.net Read full article

Super Bowl champion wide receiver Rashee Rice files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, reports $3.45 million in debt    Fox News Read full article

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The Dolphin Park Co.'s Ch. 11 Plan And Its Critics    Law360 Read full article

Chiefs receiver Rashee Rice files for bankruptcy over debts from crash, alleged assault    KSHB 41 Kansas City Read full article

Children’s Place reportedly weighs bankruptcy filing (updated)    NJBIZ Read full article

Chiefs’ Rashee Rice files for bankruptcy, cites debt of more than $3 million    Kansas City Star Read full article

Kansas City wide receiver Rashee Rice files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy    WCNC Read full article

Mike Tyson Reveals Who Handles His Money After $38 Million Debt, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy    Yahoo Read full article

It is not very hard to plead cases under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. However, some rules are honored more in the breach. Take Fed.R.Civ.P. 8(a)(2) which requires a "short and plain statement of the claim." A short and plain statement makes it easier to draft a responsive answer without 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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