Updates
(6th Cir. B.A.P. Mar. 3, 2016)
(7th Cir. Mar. 4, 2016)
The U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Eighth Circuit recently affirmed an order of the bankruptcy court granting a debtor’s motion to avoid a judgment creditor’s lien on the debtor’s residence held in tenancy by the entirety with his non-debtor spouse, holding because the lien “fixed” under the Bankruptcy Code and thus impaired the debtor’s claimed exemption, it was avoidable.
A copy of the opinion is available at: Link to Opinion.
On March 2, 2016, Sports Authority Holdings, Inc. and six of its affiliates filed chapter 11 petitions before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (lead case 16-10527). The cases have been assigned to the Honorable Mary F.
“Sometimes, you can make no mistakes, do everything right, and still lose.”
Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG)
(6th Cir. B.A.P. Mar. 3, 2016)
As avid blog readers know, we’ve posted extensively on make whole issues, including several articles covering the ongoing make whole litigations in the chapter 11 cases of Energy Future Holdings and its affiliated debtors, which can be found here,
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The United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Utah has published the first opinion within the Tenth Circuit analyzing and authorizing the “structured dismissal” of a chapter 11 case. See In re Naartjie Custom Kinds, Inc., 534 B.R. 416 (Bankr.
(Bankr. S.D. Ind. Feb. 24, 2016)