Featured Cases

• In Re: Gayle Mullen

  8:2011cv00650
  Filed in California Central District Court
  Type of Suit: Other
  Appellant: Helvetica Capital Funding LLC, Richard A Marshack and Gayle Mullen. In Re Debtor: Gayle Mullen. Appellee: US Trustee.
  Judge: George H. King
  (April 26, 2011)

• Grochocinski v. Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw LLP et al

  1:2006cv05486
  Filed in Illinois Northern District Court
  Type of Suit: Other Contract
  Plaintiff: David Grochocinski; Defendant: Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw LLP, Ronald B Given
  Judge: Virginia M. Kendall
  Cause Of Action: Petition for Removal
  (February 13, 2011)

• NIFONG v. EVANS et al

  1:2008cv00441
  Filed in North Carolina Middle District Court
  Type of Suit: Appeal
  Appellant: MICHAEL B. NIFONG, Appellee: DAVID F. EVANS, COLLIN FINNERTY, READE SELIGMANN, Debtor: MICHAEL B. NIFONG, Interested Party: MICHAEL D. WEST, Trustee: SARA A. CONTI
  Judge: JAMES A. BEATY JR.
  Cause Of Action: Federal Question
  (December 3, 2008)

• A&E Partners Holding, LLC et al v. IAC/Interactive Corp.

  1:2008cv04734
  Filed in New York Southern District Court
  Type of Suit: Other Contract
  Plaintiff: A&E Partners Holding, LLC, A&E Partners Holding I, LLC; Defendant: IAC/Interactive Corp.
  Judge: John G. Koeltl
  Cause Of Action: Federal Question
  (May 22, 2008)

• Leo Stoller vs. Google Inc

  1:2007cv00092
  Filed in Illinois Northern District Court
  Type of Suit: Appeal
  Appellant: Leo Stoller Creditor: Pure Fishing, Inc. Appellee: Google Inc
  Judge: William J. Hibbler
  Cause Of Action: Notice of Appeal re Bankruptcy Matter (BAP)
  (September 25, 2007)

Dockets

• McCarthy v. Direct Global Commodities, LLC

  1:2012cv00156
  Filed in Virginia Eastern District Court
  Type of Suit: Withdrawal
  Plaintiff: Kevin R. McCarthy. Defendant: Direct Global Commodities, LLC.
  Judge: Gerald Bruce Lee
  Cause Of Action: (c)(1) Findings, Concl. & Proposed Judgment
  (February 15, 2012)

• Gladstone v. Omega Life Fund, LLC et al

  3:2012cv00424
  Filed in California Southern District Court
  Type of Suit: Appeal
  Plaintiff: Leslie T. Gladstone. Defendant: Omega Life Fund, LLC, Sam Mansour Insurance Trust Dated May 12 2005, Eileen Green, Eileen Green Investment Trust, Mansour and Sivalelli JT Trust and other.
  Judge: Barry Ted Moskowitz
  Cause Of Action: Notice of Appeal re Bankruptcy Matter (BAP)
  (February 15, 2012)

• OmniBank v. Evans

  3:2012cv00110
  Filed in Mississippi Southern District Court
  Type of Suit: Appeal
  Appellee: John Christopher Evan. Appellant: OmniBank.
  Judge: Daniel P. Jordan
  Cause Of Action: Bankruptcy Appeal
  (February 15, 2012)

• Uplinger v. US Investigation Services, Professional Services Corporation, Inc. et al

  1:2012cv00157
  Filed in Virginia Eastern District Court
  Type of Suit: Withdrawal
  Plaintiff: Pammalla Shannon Uplinger. Defendant: US Investigation Services, Professional Services Corporation, Inc. and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Federal Protective Service.
  Judge: T. S. Ellis
  Cause Of Action: (c)(1) Findings, Concl. & Proposed Judgment
  (February 15, 2012)

• MILLER et al v. MILLER et al

  5:2012cv00830
  Filed in Pennsylvania Eastern District Court
  Type of Suit: Appeal
  Plaintiff: ETTINGER & ASSOCIATES, LLC. Defendant: GREGORY JOSEPH MILLER and TAMMY LYNN MILLER. Appellant: GREGORY JOSEPH MILLER and TAMMY LYNN MILLER. Trustee: UNITED STATES TRUSTEE and MICHAEL H. KALINER. Appellee: NEIL ETTINGER, KEIFER & TSAROUHIS, LLP and ETTINGER & ASSOCIATES, LLC.
  Judge: LEGROME D. DAVIS
  Cause Of Action: Notice of Appeal re Bankruptcy Matter (BA
  (February 15, 2012)

Legislation

• Bill Introduced: H.R.3899 To provide for rollover treatment to traditional IRAs of amounts ...

  To provide for rollover treatment to traditional IRAs of amounts received in airline carrier bankruptcy.
  (February 1, 2012)

• Bill Enacted: H.R.2056 To instruct the Inspector General of the Federal Deposit Insurance ...

  To instruct the Inspector General of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to study the impact of insured depository institution failures, and for other purposes.
  January 02, 2012: Became Public Law No: 112-88.
  (January 1, 2012)

• Bill Introduced: H.R.3682 Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2011

  To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and provide for comprehensive health reform, and for other purposes.
  (December 13, 2011)

• Bill Signed by President: H.R.2192 National Guard and Reservist Debt Relief Extension Act of 2011

  To exempt for an additional 4-year period, from the application of the means-test presumption of abuse under chapter 7, qualifying members of reserve components of the Armed Forces and members of the National Guard who, after September 11, 2001, are called to active duty or to perform a homeland defense activity for not less than 90 days.
  December 12, 2011: Signed by President.
  (December 11, 2011)

• Bill Introduced: H.R.3530 Freddie Mac Debt Reduction Act of 2011

  To require the exercise of clean-up call options under securities issued by the Federal National Mortgage Association or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation and to prohibit any new mortgage-backed securities issued by such enterprises to contain provisions for a clean-up call option.
  (November 28, 2011)

Articles

• Who Files for Bankruptcy? State Laws and the Characteristics of Bankrupt Households

  Michelle M. Miller Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Business School Date Posted: January 12, 2012 Working Paper Series 22 downloads Chapter 7 or 13: Are Client or Lawyer Interests Paramount? Berkeley Electronic Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy Advances, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2010 Lars John Lefgren , Frank McIntyre and Michelle M. Miller Brigham Young University - Department of Economics , Rutgers Business School Newark and New Brunswick and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Business School Date Posted: January 11, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 1 downloads Improving Bankruptcy Sales by Raising the Bar Matthew A. Bruckner St. John's University School of Law Date Posted: January 11, 2012 Last Revised: February 17, 2012
  (February 16, 2012)

• Pricing Corporate Debt with Finite Maturity and Chapter 11 Proceedings

  Min Dai , Lishang Jiang and Jianwei Lin National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Mathematics , Tongji University - Institute of Mathematics and affiliation not provided to SSRN Date Posted: February 06, 2012 Last Revised: February 11, 2012
  (February 10, 2012)

• Driven by Debt: Bankruptcy and Financial Failure in American Families

  BROKE: HOW DEBT BANKRUPTS THE MIDDLE CLASS, Introductory Chapter, Katherine Porter, ed., Stanford University Press, 2012 , UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2012-3 Katherine M. Porter University of California - Irvine School of Law Date Posted: January 30, 2012 Working Paper Series Regulating Shadow Banking Steven L. Schwarcz Duke University - School of Law Date Posted: January 30, 2012 Working Paper Series 59 downloads Small Ball Texas Law Review, Vol. 90, p. 9, 2011, Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1185 William C. Whitford University of Wisconsin Law School Date Posted: January 25, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 4 downloads Are Bailouts Inevitable? Yale Journal on Regulation, 2012 Randall D. Guynn Davis Polk & Wardwell Date Posted: January 23, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 25 downloads Race, Attorney Influence, and Bankruptcy Chapter Choice Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Forthcoming, Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 12-02 Jean Braucher , Dov Cohen and Robert M. Lawless University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law , University of Illinois and University of Illinois College of Law Date Posted: January 22, 2012 Last Revised: February 07, 2012
  (February 6, 2012)

• What is Securitization? And for What Purpose?

  Southern California Law Review, Vol. 85, No. 5, 2012 Steven L. Schwarcz Duke University - School of Law Date Posted: February 03, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 36 downloads Reforming Sovereign Lending Practices: Modern Initiatives in Historical Context UNC Legal Studies Research Paper Mark C. Weidemaier University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law Date Posted: February 02, 2012 Working Paper Series 17 downloads Re: Defining Securitization Southern California Law Review, 2012, Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper Jonathan C. Lipson University of Wisconsin Law School Date Posted: February 01, 2012 Accepted Paper Series 41 downloads Governments as Investors of Last Resort: Credit Crisis Comparative Case Studies Theoretical Inquiries in Law, 2012, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 187/2012 Gerard Hertig ETH Zurich Date Posted: January 31, 2012 Last Revised: February 06, 2012
  (February 5, 2012)

• Information and Priority Rules

  Michael Hewer University of Bonn Date Posted: January 05, 2012 Working Paper Series 14 downloads Mexico's Retrogression: Implications of a Bankruptcy Reorganization Gone Wrong Arturo C. Porzecanski American University Date Posted: January 05, 2012 Working Paper Series 5 downloads The Scope and Implications of Stern v. Marshall, 131 S. Ct. (2011) Michael St. Patrick Baxter , Elizabeth Gibson , Randal C. Picker and R. Patrick Vance Covington & Burling LLP , University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law , University of Chicago - Law School and Jones Walker Date Posted: January 05, 2012 Working Paper Series 408 downloads Bank Act – PPSA Interaction: Still Waiting for Solutions Roderick J. Wood University of Alberta - Faculty of Law Date Posted: January 02, 2012 Working Paper Series 18 downloads Security Rights in Article 5 EU Insolvency Regulation - A Comparison of German and Dutch Law and the Paradigm of Communication and Coordination Robbert Walstra affiliation not provided to SSRN Date Posted: January 02, 2012 Working Paper Series 13 downloads Bankruptcy, Backwards: The Problem of Quasi-Sovereign Debt Yale Law Journal, Vol. 121, p. 888, 2012, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2012-06 Anna Gelpern American University Washington College of Law Date Posted: December 24, 2011 Last Revised: February 04, 2012
  (February 3, 2012)

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