Rochelle's Daily Wire

Seventh Circuit again holds that Section 505(a) doesn’t confer jurisdiction for bankruptcy courts to decide how much debtors owe in taxes.

A notice of appeal precludes the court from modifying an order on appeal but does not impair enforcement of the order absent a stay pending appeal.

The Bankruptcy Code dropped ‘person aggrieved’ as the standard for appellate standing. Did it survive nonetheless?

Whether orders in contested matters are ever appealable is in doubt after a Fourth Circuit decision that declined to follow contrary opinions by bankruptcy appellate panels.

On remand from the Supreme Court and the Second Circuit, the district court decides that the Mall of America landlord isn’t entitled to more than the bargain it made with Sears in 1991.

The BAP judges disagreed over whether the amount of sanctions had to be fixed before there could be an appeal from an order declaring that the injured party was entitled to an award of attorneys’ fees for the contemnor’s contempt.

The Supreme Court again retreated from the idea that there’s a strong federal policy in favor of arbitration.

Three Eleventh Circuit Judges would have their appeals court sit en banc to stop dismissing for lack of standing when dismissal should be resulting from failure to state a claim under state law.

The Fifth Circuit dissenter says that the majority set aside findings of fact without showing them to be clearly erroneous.

For the time being, the Eleventh Circuit has split with the Second Circuit on whether a chapter 15 debtor must have property in the U.S. to gain foreign recognition.