Government Bar Date Applies to DOE Loans Even When the Servicer Is Private
As long as the student loan is owing to the government, the Fifth Circuit holds that the government bar date applies even when the servicer is a private company.
Supreme Court: The Bankruptcy Code Waived Tribes’ Sovereign Immunity
The Supreme Court resolved a split of circuits in an opinion that could give support to the notion that arbitration agreements are not enforceable in bankruptcy.
Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument on Tribal Sovereign Immunity
It appears as though the Supreme Court will decide Lac du Flambeau based entirely on textual analysis of Section 106(a), which does not explicitly abrogate sovereign immunity as to Native American tribes.
Complications of Interstate Exemption Law and Marriage
Complications of Interstate Exemption Law and Marriage By Edward Boltz and Lori Patton The consumer bankruptcy exemption scheme has always been complicated. Even when the whole nation operated under 11 U.S.C. § 522, each state had the option to decline the use of