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May 31, 2024 - 15 new headlines

Investors take control of bankrupt Raleigh startup - Triangle Business Journal - The Business Journals

05/31/2024 Investors take control of bankrupt Raleigh startup - Triangle Business Journal  The Business Journals [more]
Tags: Filings, News

Rudy Giuliani Should Lose DC Law License, Legal Panel Recommends - Bloomberg Law

05/31/2024 Rudy Giuliani Should Lose DC Law License, Legal Panel Recommends  Bloomberg Law [more]
Tags: Lawsuits, News

DOJ files objection to Steward's bankruptcy deal - Healthcare Finance News

05/31/2024 DOJ files objection to Steward's bankruptcy deal  Healthcare Finance News [more]
Tags: 363 Sales, News

Syracuse Catholic diocese proposes $100M plan to exit bankruptcy, to be voted on by July 1 - CatholicVote org

05/31/2024 Syracuse Catholic diocese proposes $100M plan to exit bankruptcy, to be voted on by July 1  CatholicVote org [more]
Tags: Cases of Interest, News

Just for Laughs Sells Assets Amid Bankruptcy Protection - Hollywood Reporter

05/31/2024 Just for Laughs Sells Assets Amid Bankruptcy Protection  Hollywood Reporter [more]
Tags: 363 Sales, News

'Deion Knew How Bad Shilo Was': Assault Accuser Blames Deion Sanders as Messy Details Behind Shilo's Bankruptcy ... - Atlanta Black Star

05/31/2024 'Deion Knew How Bad Shilo Was': Assault Accuser Blames Deion Sanders as Messy Details Behind Shilo's Bankruptcy [more]
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These Clergy Abuse Survivors Had a Chance to Find Justice. Then Their Diocese Filed for Bankruptcy. - Mother Jones

05/31/2024 These Clergy Abuse Survivors Had a Chance to Find Justice. Then Their Diocese Filed for Bankruptcy.  Mother Jones [more]
Tags: Lawsuits, News

Development firm attached to Superblock project files bankruptcy for ailing construction, supply businesses - Baltimore Sun

05/31/2024 Development firm attached to Superblock project files bankruptcy for ailing construction, supply businesses  Baltimore Sun [more]
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Lawyers Net Over $820M in High-Profile Bankruptcy Cases - Coinspeaker

05/31/2024 Lawyers Net Over $820M in High-Profile Bankruptcy Cases  Coinspeaker [more]
Tags: Cases of Interest, News

Is it better to die in debt or declare bankruptcy in retirement? - MarketWatch

05/31/2024 Is it better to die in debt or declare bankruptcy in retirement?  MarketWatch [more]
Tags: Filings, News

Blogs

US Trustee Investigating Possible Scheme to Take Debtors’ Equity in Real Property in Multiple Cases; Lawyer Sanctioned

05/14/2024 In a very detailed 91-page Order entered in the Northern District of Georgia- and adopted by all Judges in the District – Judge Sacca addressed serious concerns of the United States Trustee over the handling of a Chapter 13 case by the Debtor’s lawyer. The United States Trustee is also [more]
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Terms of Confirmed Chapter 11 Plan Prohibit Malpractice Claim Against Debtor’s Counsel

04/03/2024 The Third Circuit Court of Appeals issues a reminder to debtors’ counsel that they can protect themselves with beneficial (boilerplate) terms in a Chapter 11 Plan. In In re SC SJ Holdings, LLC, 2024 WL 1328233 (3rd. Cir. March 28, 2024), the Debtor was the owner of a hotel that was operated [more]
Tags: Atlanta bankruptcy, Atlanta Bankruptcy Lawyer, bankruptcy, Bankruptcy Blogs, Chapter 11, Chapter 11 Plan, Corporate & Fiduciary Litigation, Georgia bankruptcy, Georgia Bankruptcy Lawyer, GeorgiaBankruptcyBlog, Miscellaneous Cases, Plan of Reorganization, reorganization, Small Business Bankruptcy, Uncategorized

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]
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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]
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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]
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