BAPCPA Didn’t Entirely Stop Mortgages from ‘Riding Through’ Chapter 7
The lender’s failure to demand reaffirmation before discharge in chapter 7 barred enforcement of a default based on the filing of bankruptcy.
Circuits More Deeply Split on Waiver of Sovereign Immunity for Native American Tribes
Over a vigorous dissent, the First Circuit Joins the Ninth Circuit by holding that Section 106(a) waives tribes’ sovereign immunity.