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Chapter 7 Motion to Compel

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Bankruptcy Court Splits the Baby on Real Estate Landlord’s Claim for Unpaid Postpetition Rent

A chapter 7 trustee-lessee’s failure to comply with postpetition, pre-rejection lease obligations does not automatically give the landlord an administrative expense claim, as some courts fashion alternative remedies on a...more

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Second Circuit, on Truncated Record, Holds Dispute Implicating Core Bankruptcy Proceeding Non-Arbitrable

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In a recent decision pitting the Bankruptcy Code against the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that a creditor could not compel arbitration of a debtor's class action claims...more

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Ninth Circuit Affirms District Court’s Decision That Bankruptcy Court Did Not Abuse Its Discretion In Denying Motion To Compel...

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This appeal is from an order by a district court in California, affirming a bankruptcy court’s denial of a motion to compel arbitration in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee’s adversary proceeding, in which the trustee sought...more

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Property Surrender: Surrender Means Surrender – Really

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In re Failla, 529 B.R. 786 (Bankr. S.D. Fla. 2014) – Individual chapter 7 debtors filed a statement of intention electing to surrender their real estate. The mortgagee contended that they had failed to do so and filed a...more

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