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Pepperdine Law School is holding its "The Second Conversation on the Law of the Constitution" with Justice Alito on July 30, 2008 at the Malibu campus from 5:30 pm.m to 7:00 p.m. Other speakers include Kenneth Starr, Dean of the...
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The City of Vallejo has filed a motion seeking to reject or terminate its four union contracts. The motion can be found here. The hearing is set for July 22, 2008. The city has 407 employees, the bulk of whom...
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Here are the final statistics for this Supreme Court term. Scotusblog.com is such a great website! The 67 total "merits opinions" were the lowest total for a term since 1953-54.
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From Tax guru Elmer Dean Martin: The California Bankruptcy Journal is planning on an issue of the Journal for early next year devoted to articles relevant to individual Chapter 11 cases. A review of Webpacer indicates that the number of...
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What are great program! Justice Scalia and Bryan Garner are putting on an all day program on July 25 in Washington, D.C. based on their new book, Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges. The brochure is here. The...
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Just musing about how much the Piccadilly appeal cost and what it accomplished. I didn't spend any time wondering about the result when I saw that Justice Thomas was the author of the majority opinion. The code says no stamp...
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From Professor Bob Lawless: Simone Baribeau from the Washington Post is doing a story about the business credit cards and increasing difficulties by small business owners who find themselves struggling because of high debts on these credit cards. She would...
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2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, June 19, 2008 In Re Prudential Lines Inc., --- F.3d --- (2nd Cir., 2008)(bankruptcy court order re use of insurance indemnities to pay claims is reversed) 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, June 17, 2008 Crossingham...
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Florida Dept of Revenue v. Piccadilly Cafeterias, Inc., --- U.S. ---, 2008 WL 2404077 (2008) Issue: Does a statutory exemption from a state stamp tax for a sale “under a plan confirmed under section 1129” apply to sales before the...
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WOW, Jon. I love the internet! So, if my client's spouse, as allowed under California law, makes $500K a year, when my unemployed debtor files a chapter 7, 1 U.S.C. s 7 says I don't have to list the "spouse"'s...
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This conference was held in Dallas on June 13, 2008. There are some really good materials, especially for the new bankruptcy lawyer or law student, on the Dallas Bar Assn website here.
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This is a post to a consumer group list serve by a good friend of mine and a great lawyer in Long Beach, CA. I am preparing a Chapter 7 for a client of no particular significance until this came...
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Enron is distributing $4 billion to unsecured creditors which brings the total distributions to $20 billion under the Plan of Reorganization or about 50% of all claims according to an Enron press release which you can access here.
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You can access the newsletter here.
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I have never met Alex Kozinski or argued before him. But I have met Marcy Tiffany. She was the US Trustee in Los Angeles for a number of years. She has written a letter defending her husband's conduct and excoriating...
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I had lunch today with one of the chapter 13 trustees in Los Angeles. She had 94 matters this morning on the chapter 13 confirmation calendar. The whole morning resulted in 22 plan confirmations. She told me that 57% of...
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June 14, 2008 Dear Insolvency Law Committee Constituency List Members: The American Law Institute and the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws have formed a Joint Review Committee to identify specific provisions of Article 9 that may need...
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3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, June 10, 2008 Windt v. Qwest Communications Int., Inc., --- F.3d ---, 2008 WL 2345151 (3d Cir, 2008)(trustee's complaint dismissed for forum non conveniens) 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, June 10, 2008 US v. Mitchell,...
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District of Delaware Organizational Meetings DATETIMECASE NUMBERCASE NAMELOCATION June 20, 2008 11:00 a.m. 08-11111 (KJC) LandSource Communities Development LLC J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building 844 King Street, Room 5209 Wilmington, DE 19801 June 16, 2008 1:00 p.m. 08-11133 (CSS) Goody's...
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Chapter 7 and chapter 13 debtors are required to complete a postpetition Financial Management Course before entry of the discharge. The US Trustee has conducted a study of the effectiveness of the program and has concluded that it is pretty...
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McCain voted for, Obama voted against, Clinton did not vote. See the votes of all the senators here.
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The City of Vallejo has a very nice website with immediately accessible documents filed in its chapter 9 bankruptcy case. The city, just above and east of San Francisco, has 121,000 residents and 407 employees, the bulk of whom belong...
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I received a call asking me why Ms. Kagenveama's net income from Schedules I and J of $1,500 was so much different than the B22C means test of minus $4. My first thought was that the means test net income...
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Creditor's Committee Counsel Cooley Godward filed its fee application in the Sharper Image chapter 11 case for April, 2008 seeking $238,000 in fees for the month. The fee application for March requested $425,000 in fees (which were approved). The financial...
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The New York Times article last Friday on the annual financial disclosures of the individual justices of the Supreme Court may be found here. Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter appear to be the wealthiest with Anthony Kennedy and Samuel...
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4th Circuit Court of Appeals, June 03, 2008 In re Meredith, --- F.3d ---. 2008 WL 2251861 (4th Cir. 2008)(defendant not "the entity for whose benefit such transfer was made" and therefore no avoidable fraudulent transfer) 5th Circuit Court of...
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The Central District (of California) Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys Assoc has published vol 4 of its newsletter. It can be found here.
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Maney v. Kagenveama (In re Kagenveama), ---- F. 3d ----, 2008 WL 2278681 (9th Cir. June 2008) Issue: Where an above-median chapter 13 debtor has negative “disposable income” per the means test but $1,500 per month per schedules I and...
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Entertaining explanation with stick figures here.
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Professor Bob Lawless has posted his update on bankruptcy filings through May, 2008. There were 89,560 filings in May compared to 93,096 in April, 2008. The Credit Slips posting is here.
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University of West Los Angeles School of Law Office of the Dean, George Dezes __________________________________________________ 9920 S. La Cienega Boulevard · Suite 415 · Inglewood, California 90301 Telephone: (310) 342-5270 · Fax: (310) 342-5293 Writer’s Direct E-Mail Address: gdezes@uwla.edu Traynor...
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The National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys (NACBA) annual program held on May 15 - 18, 2008 is available on CDs. You can buy one particular program or all 24 volumes at very reasonable prices at ActsRecording.com.
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Ford Motor Credit Company v. Parmenter (In re Parmenter) --- F.3d --- (6th Cir., May, 2008) Issue: When the chapter 13 plan provides that the debtor will assume a vehicle lease and pay it outside the plan, does the lessor...