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December 2, 2023 - 3 new headlines

David Moyes admits Declan Rice sale may have helped struggling West Ham star - The Mirror

12/02/2023 David Moyes admits Declan Rice sale may have helped struggling West Ham star  The Mirror [more]
Tags: 363 Sales, News

Restructuring Bankruptcy Law - The Regulatory Review

12/02/2023 Restructuring Bankruptcy Law  The Regulatory Review [more]
Tags: 363 Sales, News

Today in History: December 2, Senate condemns McCarthy - WTOP

12/02/2023 Today in History: December 2, Senate condemns McCarthy  WTOP [more]
Tags: News, Reorganizations

Auction for Yellow’s terminals ‘remains ongoing’ - FreightWaves

12/01/2023 Auction for Yellow’s terminals ‘remains ongoing’  FreightWaves [more]
Tags: News, Reorganizations

St. Vincent de Paul High School announces plans to separate from ... - Petaluma Argus Courier

12/01/2023 St. Vincent de Paul High School announces plans to separate from [more]
Tags: News, Reorganizations

What is unsecured debt? - AOL

12/01/2023 What is unsecured debt?  AOL [more]
Tags: Liquidation, News

India Cloud Infrastructure Market Report 2023: Market to Reach INR ... - Yahoo Finance

12/01/2023 India Cloud Infrastructure Market Report 2023: Market to Reach INR [more]
Tags: News, Reorganizations

How soon can you file Chapter 13 after Chapter 7 bankruptcy? - AOL

12/01/2023 How soon can you file Chapter 13 after Chapter 7 bankruptcy?  AOL [more]
Tags: Cases of Interest, News

How soon can you file Chapter 13 after Chapter 7 bankruptcy? - Yahoo Finance

12/01/2023 How soon can you file Chapter 13 after Chapter 7 bankruptcy?  Yahoo Finance [more]
Tags: Liquidation, News

Up Next At High Court: Purdue Pharma, Taxes & Job Transfers - Law360

12/01/2023 Up Next At High Court: Purdue Pharma, Taxes & Job Transfers  Law360 [more]
Tags: Cases of Interest, News

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]
Tags: ATexasBankruptcyLawyersBlog, Bankruptcy Blogs, NCBJ 2023

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

Unhappy Campers and Their Credit Cards

08/11/2023 This story about the failure of a company that ships duffel bags to/from sleep-away camps has an interesting payment systems meets bankruptcy angle that got me particularly excited given that I'm teaching payment systems this fall: Parents are disputing the Camp Trucking fees with their credit card [more]
Tags: Bankruptcy Blogs, Credit & Debit Cards, CreditSlips

Treasury in the Red... with Yellow

08/02/2023 Freight company Yellow is on the verge of bankruptcy. It's not a company whose financial distress would normally stand out but for the fact that it received $700M in national security loans from the US Treasury in 2020, and, oh man, are taxpayers going to take it on the chin.  The Treasury financing [more]
Tags: Bankruptcy Blogs, Corporate Bankruptcy, CreditSlips

Axos Bank--More Sketchiness?

07/27/2023 The Washington Post has a big piece up about Axos Bank being the lender-of-last-resort for Donald Trump. But those us who work in the consumer finance space, know of Axos as a notorious bank partner in rent-a-bank arrangements. Axos is the bank parter of World Business Lenders, an outfit that [more]
Tags: Bankruptcy Blogs, Consumer Finance, CreditSlips, Usury

Consumer Law Scholars Conference--Call for Abstracts

07/14/2023 The Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice at Berkeley Law has announced the call for abstracts for the 2024 Consumer Law Scholars Conference. Abstracts are due by September 8, 2023, for the conference scheduled for February 29-March 1, 2024. The conference welcomes abstracts from a wide [more]
Tags: Academic & Scholarly News, Bankruptcy Blogs, CreditSlips