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6/3/2024 3:19:51 PM U.S. Supreme Court Unanimously Reverses Second Circuit Ruling on Dodd-Frank Preemption in Mortgage Escrow Interest Class Action By Brian Willett A class of New York homeowners notched a temporary victory yesterday as the Supreme Court of the United States ruled unanimously that the...
10/24/2023 8:43:42 PM All Bets Are On: The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2018 ruling on sports gambling is poised to shake up the hospitality industry By Drew Albert By 2030, if not sooner, a sports fan could potentially attend a live sports game, place a bet on the game at the arena, celebrate both...
6/18/2023 11:28:24 AM Supreme Court Addresses Interplay of Sovereign Immunity And Insolvency Statutes By Derek Baker In two cases in as many months, the Supreme Court tackled the application of sovereign immunity in two separate insolvency statutes. Two...
4/20/2023 6:20:01 PM A Split Resolved: The Supreme Court Holds Section 363(m) To Be Non-Jurisdictional - and Maybe Casts a Shadow on the Doctrine of Equitable Mootness By Amir Shachmurove On April 19, 2023, the Supreme Court, in a unanimous opinion written by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in MOAC Mall Holdings LLC, ruled...
4/10/2023 4:23:49 PM Lexmark’s Shadow: The Future of the “Person Aggrieved” Test for Bankruptcy Appellate Standing By Amir Shachmurove Kurt F. Gwynne In In re Schubert, the Sixth Circuit affirmed the bankruptcy court’s dismissal of an adversary proceeding because the appellants had...
3/8/2023 7:39:00 PM Debt Arising From Fraud/False Pretenses Is Nondischargeable Even If Debtor Was Not The Culpable Actor By Derek Baker In a unanimous decision Bartenwerfer v Buckley, No. 21-908, 598 U.S. (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed the breadth of the U.S....
3/2/2023 3:16:10 PM Effects of Supreme Court’s Recently Dismissed Privilege Case By Craig Chaney In re Grand Jury, 214 L. Ed. 2d 329 (U.S. 2023) invited the Supreme Court to answer a recurrent question: when a client confers with an...
2/27/2023 7:44:27 PM U.S. bankruptcy code protection will not cover fraudulent debt By Keith M. Aurzada The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that bankruptcy filers cannot avoid debt incurred by another’s fraud. The 9-0 ruling, written by...