Christopher M. Klein

In California, bringing litigation with a marginal possibility of success could be a bad bet whenever a contract permits one side to recover attorneys’ fees.

In transferring venue of a related case under Rule 1014(b), the bankruptcy court can move sua sponte and need not await a venue motion by a creditor or party in interest.

We focus on ethics two days in a row, given the recent disturbing events in Houston.

Bankruptcy Rule 7070, incorporating Federal Rule 70 along with 28 U.S.C. § 1655, gives bankruptcy courts power to remove liens of record when the lenders don’t do so voluntarily.

Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein provides authority for student loan debtors who win in bankruptcy court but face an appeal aimed at the trial court’s fact-findings.

Judge Klein let a lawyer off the hook for violating Rule 9011 because the lawyer had already been punished enough.

Just because a creditor doesn’t cash a distribution check doesn’t mean it’s abandoned and reverts to the debtor.

Ninth Circuit BAP doesn’t require a formal motion to dismiss with prejudice when a debtor files a voluntary motion to dismiss as of right under Section 1307(b).

Deducting a loan to a child from her inheritance wasn’t a violation of the discharge injunction.

The Supreme Court declined to decide whether the automatic stay terminates automatically after a repeat filing as to all property or only property of the debtor.