A judgment against a debtor for violating the Alaska Uniform Trade Secrets Act (the UTSA) for the willful an malicious misappropriation of the judgment creditor’s trade secrets was insufficient...
In non-bankruptcy case related to BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill claimants, 5th Circuit reversed and remanded ruling of U.S. District Court (E.D. La.)., ruling that district court applied improper...
The automatic stay provision of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (section 362 incorporated through section 301(a), 48 U.S.C. section 2161(a)) applies to certain...
Bankruptcy court cannot sua sponte dismiss debtor's chapter 11 case without providing debtor with proper notice prior to dismissing its case or considering the best interests of the estate and...
BAP for 10th Circuit reversed and remanded bankruptcy court (D. Colo.) order denying debtor's motion to reopen chapter 7 case to seek relief from an alleged discharge violation. Bankruptcy court...
Bankruptcy Rule 1009(a), which permits a debtor to amend its schedules “at any time before the case is closed,” applies equally in a case that has been closed and subsequently reopened such...
The Sixth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel reversed the Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Ohio, ruling (i) the continuation of a contempt proceeding against a Chapter 13 debtor for...
Neither the presumption against extraterritoriality nor international comity principles bar the trustee of a domestic debtor from recovering property that the debtor transferred to a foreign entity...
Bankruptcy court clearly erred by finding that a Chapter 13 plan was not offered "in good faith" because it allowed elderly debtors to retain a 20-year-old fishing boat that served as part of the...
BAP for 10th Circuit reversed and remanded ruling of bankruptcy court (D. NM) denying debtors' motions to amend schedules, including claimed exemptions, after cases had been closed. BAP ruled that...
