Newly Filed Certiorari Petitions Raise Circuit Splits on ‘Finality’ and the Automatic Stay
The Supreme Court is invited to resolve a circuit split and decide whether inaction can violate the automatic stay.
Supreme Court Tackles Nonjudicial Foreclosure and the FDCPA; Homeowners Might Win
If the FDCPA applies to judicial foreclosure, should it also apply to nonjudicial foreclosure? The Supreme Court will decide.
Supreme Court Decision on Arbitration Has Ominous Implications for Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy needs blanket judicial immunity from the Federal Arbitration Act after the Supreme Court’s Schein decision.
Supreme Court Grants ‘Cert’ to Decide Whether Good Faith Is a Defense to Contempt
Supreme Court has three bankruptcy cases this term, on nonjudicial foreclosure, trademark rejection, and contempt for a stay violation.
Supreme Court Update: Two Bankruptcy Cases in the Running for ‘Cert’
Circuit splits over trademarks and the automatic stay are contenders for resolution in the Supreme Court.
Status Report on the Supreme Court
Already primed to rule on nonjudicial foreclosure, the Supreme Court might take cases involving contempt, the automatic stay and trademarks.
‘Cert’ Petition Wants Discharge Violations to Be Arbitrated
Petitioner contends the Second Circuit was wrong to bar arbitration in view of the Supreme Court’s decision in Epic Systems.
A False Statement About One Asset Isn’t Grounds for Nondischargeability, Supreme Court Rules
High court resolves a circuit split on Section 523(a)(2)(B) and the meaning of “financial condition.”
Supreme Court Holds Argument in Lamar, Archer & Cofrin on Dischargeability
The high court seemed primed to rule that a debt will be discharged despite an oral misrepresentation about one asset.
A Trademark License Rejection Case May End Up in the Supreme Court
A case on the ability of state law to take property out of the estate after filing may not go to the Supreme Court.