A trustee cannot use 11 USC 550(a) to "recover" fraudulently conveyed property or its value from a transferee if the transferee returned the property to the debtor pre-petition. Once fraudulently...
it is for the arbitrator—not (the court)—to decide whether Willis’s TILA claim is arbitrable. It is similarly the arbitrator’s province to resolve the inconsistent procedural terms....
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OWEN, Chief Judge, SMITH and DENNIS, Circuit Judges
On direct appeal, 5th Cir. reversed and remanded bankruptcy court (SD Tx.) ruling that class of noteholders were impaired by solvent debtor's chapter 11 plan that provided creditors with full...
Court cannot confirm Plan as matter of law where Plan provides for payment of secured claim but does not expressly provide that Creditor will retain lien until obligation is paid in full under...
The Sixth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel has identified a flaw in the national Chapter 13 plan form. The BAP reversed the bankruptcy court's decision overruling an objection to confirmation and...
Payments made by debtors to a university for a child's college education are per se constructively fraudulent transfers under section 548 when the payments were made when the parents were...
Before dismissing an involuntary bankruptcy petition based solely on an inadequate number of petitioning creditors, the bankruptcy court must ensure that the debtor's creditors are given notice of...
District court abused its discretion when determining that the preclusion/preemptive defense, that the Bankruptcy Code preempts the FDCPA and FCCPA, asserted by the loan servicer raised an...
In a perplexing ruling regarding a court's ability to enforce the discharge injunction, the Fifth Circuit ruled that only a court in the district that issued the discharge could enforce the...
A bankruptcy court does not have authority to prohibit a debtor from bringing a claim for damages under 11 U.S.C. § 362(k). Section 362(k) creates a private cause of action.
