Bankruptcy Tweets of 2011-2012 Cases - A Year in Review - V.3
Here's more in the continuing "Year in Review" series, catching up on more of my backlog of twitter posts of case developments in the past 12 months.
Each post will feature a different federal courthouse. The inset photo is of the US Courthouse for the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Arizona in Phoenix, where Judges James Marlar, George Nielsen, Redfield Baum, Sarah Sharer Curley, Charles Case II, Eileen Hollowell, and Randolph Haines preside.
- SDNY: Stern concerns aside, withdrawal at this pre-trial stage would cause significant inefficiencies & be inapprop. http://www.bankruptcylitigationblog.com/uploads/file/LYONDELL-DC-SD-NY-COTE-3-29-12.pdf …
- SDNY: No room in Stern for fr tsf claim that is a private right in 7th Am context but a public right in Art III context http://www.bankruptcylitigationblog.com/uploads/file/LYONDELL-DC-SD-NY-COTE-3-29-12.pdf …
- SDNY consensus post-Stern is BK Cts cant enter final jdgmt in fr tsf actions unless tied to proof of claim ruling. http://www.bankruptcylitigationblog.com/uploads/file/LYONDELL-DC-SD-NY-COTE-3-29-12.pdf …
- SDNY: Post-Stern, core/non-core distinction may not remain relevant to district ct's withdrawal of reference for cause http://www.bankruptcylitigationblog.com/uploads/file/LYONDELL-DC-SD-NY-COTE-3-29-12.pdf …
- SDNY: Pre-Stern, threshold inquiry in permissive withdrawal was whether the claim was core or non-core http://www.bankruptcylitigationblog.com/uploads/file/LYONDELL-DC-SD-NY-COTE-3-29-12.pdf …
- D-IL: Cts are skeptical that a BK trustee can be a class rep. absent potentially substantial class member recoveries. http://www.bankruptcylitigationblog.com/uploads/file/PRIME-DC-SD-IL-STIEHL-9-26-11.pdf …
- 7th: Can't circumvent Rooker-Feldman by recasting review as a cplt about civil rights, due process, conspiracy, or RICO http://www.bankruptcylitigationblog.com/uploads/file/WALLIS-APP-SEVENTH-CIRCUIT-CUDAHY-9-21-11.pdf …
- 9th: Common law right of public access to judicial documents displaced by BK Code §107 in the bankruptcy context. http://www.bankruptcylitigationblog.com/uploads/file/ROMAN-APP-NINTH-CIRCUIT-IKUTA-9-21-11.pdf …
- 9-BAP reviews split re if BK exemptions, incl. tenancy by entirety, are subject to §544(a) avoidance & says they are. http://www.bankruptcylitigationblog.com/uploads/file/DUFFIN-BK-TENTH-BROWN-9-19-11.pdf …
- D-IL: Claims of ch 7 ttee & crs. v. 3d parties are so closely related that the BK Ct properly enjoined creditor action. http://www.bankruptcylitigationblog.com/uploads/file/IFC-DC-ND-IL-MAROVICH-9-14-11.pdf …
- D-IL:Corp vol. petition not signed by atty isnt void ab initio but can be freely amended per FRBP 1009 to correct it http://www.bankruptcylitigationblog.com/uploads/file/IFC-DC-ND-IL-MAROVICH-9-14-11.pdf …
- D-OH: Dishonesty exclusion in D&O policy applies to liq. ttee bec sole actor rule overrides adverse interest exception. http://www.bankruptcylitigationblog.com/uploads/file/UNENCUMBERED-DC-SD-OH-GRAHAM-9-16-11.pdf …
- D&O carrier may have waived its right to rescind policy based on fraudulent reps by accepting tail coverage premium. http://www.bankruptcylitigationblog.com/uploads/file/UNENCUMBERED-DC-SD-OH-GRAHAM-9-16-11.pdf …