Bankruptcy

  • The Recorder

    In re Western Funding Incorporated

    By therecorder | The Recorder | August 14, 2017

    9th Cir. B.A.P.; 15-1238 The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel affirmed a bankruptcy court order. The court held that the bankruptcy court did not abuse its…

  • New York Law Journal

    Conflict Between CPLR and Bankruptcy Code: A Dilemma for Lenders

    By Nicole E. Schiavo | August 11, 2017

    Nicole E. Schiavo discusses the conflict between New York's legislation requiring mandatory settlement conferences in foreclosure actions and the Bankruptcy Code's prohibition against a creditor taking any act that can be construed as trying to collect a discharged debt from a debtor. Thus, if a foreclosure action is commenced against a borrower who previously received a discharge on their mortgage loan debt, the lender is left with a "Catch 22": comply with the CPLR and risk violating the Discharge Injunction, or vice versa.

  • The American Lawyer

    Takata Parent's Bankruptcy Reveals Big Monthly Litigation Fees

    By Brian Baxter | August 10, 2017

    Japanese auto parts giant Takata Corp., which followed its U.S. unit into a Delaware bankruptcy court this week, revealed in court documents that it is paying nearly $1 million per month in legal fees to an Am Law 100 firm advising it in product liability litigation over faulty air bags.

  • Connecticut Law Tribune

    Berkowitz, Trager & Trager Sued Over Opinion Tied to Bad $13M Loan

    By TOM McPARLAND | August 9, 2017

    UCF I Trust 1 and a trustee claim the law firm misrepresented the ownership interest of the borrower, which enticed the trust to issue the loan.

  • Daily Business Review

    Puerto Rico Hit With 2 Lawsuits Challenging Board's Power

    By Danica Coto | August 8, 2017

    Puerto Rico was hit with two lawsuits that for the first time challenge the constitutionality of a federal control board overseeing the island's finances and its power to start a bankruptcy-like court process for some of the U.S. territory's more than $70 billion public debt.

  • Daily Business Review

    Bank Moves to Ground Commercial Developer's Private Jet

    By R. Robin McDonald | August 7, 2017

    Fed up with what it viewed as empty promises to make good on an outstanding loan, JP Morgan Chase has asked a federal judge to ground a $12 million private jet until the commercial real estate developer who owns it settles up.

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    In Re World Imports, Ltd., PICS Case No. 17-1199 (3 Cir. July 10, 2017) Hardiman, J. (15 pages).

    By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | August 4, 2017

    Bankruptcy court misapplied the concept of constructive receipt to find buyer "received" goods shipped FOB at the port of origin because a buyer did not constructively receive goods when they were delivered to a common carrier, even if the risk of loss passed at that time, and receipt occurred when the goods were in the buyer's physical possession. Reversed.

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    Third Circuit Denies Automatic Perfection of Oil Producer Liens

    By Francis J. Lawall 
and Marcy McLaughlin | August 3, 2017

    In a recently decided, but long-running dispute, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has found that oil ­producers do not hold automatically ­perfected security interests in product they sell to midstream intermediaries, nor are the proceeds generated through the subsequent sale of such product held in an implied trust for the benefit of the upstream producers, as held in Arrow Oil & Gas v. J. Aron (In re SemCrude), 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 12975 (3d Cir. July 19). In its ­decision, the Third Circuit determined that an automatically perfected security interest or implied trust would result in "chaos" in an industry where oil is comingled and sold multiple times in the stream of commerce.

  • The Recorder

    In re Mainline Equipment, Inc.

    By therecorder | The Recorder | August 2, 2017

    9th Cir.; 15-60069 The court of appeals affirmed a Bankruptcy Appellate Panel decision. The court held that a Chapter 11 bankruptcy debtor was entitled…

  • The Recorder

    Crossroads Investors, L.P. v. Federal National Mortgage Association

    By therecorder | The Recorder | July 28, 2017

    C.A. 3rd; C072585 The Third Appellate District reversed a judgment with directions. The court held that a creditor’s communications with a debtor…

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