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Burr Alert: Supreme Court Reverses Eleventh Circuit: Debt Collectors Can File Proofs of Claim On Stale Debt Without Violating FDCPA

2017-05-23

In a 5-3 decision written by Justice Stephen G.

Filed under:

USA, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Burr & Forman LLP, Bankruptcy, Statute of limitations, Collection agency, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act 1977 (USA), Supreme Court of the United States, United States bankruptcy court, Eleventh Circuit

Authors:

Kelly E. Waits

Location:

USA

Firm:

Burr & Forman LLP

Official Bankruptcy Forms Get Extensive Facelift, But Is It Purely Cosmetic?

2016-02-24

As you may know by now, many of the Official Forms for use in Bankruptcy Courts were replaced with revised, reformatted and renumbered forms that went into effect on December 1, 2015. The changes were made as part of a forms modernization effort that began in 2008 to improve the official bankruptcy forms and the interface between the forms and the courts’ case opening and electronic case management technology.