Spotlight on Financial Services- Consumer bankruptcy
Repossessions and Bankruptcy Post-COVID, Post-Fulton [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 26]
Bill on Bankruptcy: LightSquared, the Battle among Hedge Funds
Bill on Bankruptcy: Trustees Sleep Easy after High Court Ruling
Bill on Bankruptcy: Sigmund Freud, Marx Brothers, Bernie Madoff
Bill on Bankruptcy: How Purchasers of AMR Stock Made a Killing
Earlier this year, the United States Supreme Court resolved an important question for banks, credit unions and other creditors who have a security interest in personal property owned by a debtor and lawfully take possession...more
Chicago v. Fulton, No. 19-357: Under the Bankruptcy Code, filing a bankruptcy petition creates a bankruptcy estate and also operates as a stay on any entity’s efforts to collect from the debtor outside the bankruptcy forum....more
In a recent appeal directly to the Fifth Circuit from a Southern District of Texas Bankruptcy Court, the court affirmed the bankruptcy court’s denial of a motion to compel arbitration. In Henry v. Educational Financial...more
In July 2016, Joy Denby-Peterson purchased a Chevrolet Corvette. When she defaulted on one of her car payments a few months later, the Corvette was repossessed by her lender. Denby-Peterson then filed a voluntary petition...more
On December 11, 2017, in a case entitled In re Iliceto, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court’s decision, which held that Nationstar Mortgage, LLC (“Nationstar” or the “Creditor”) received notice...more