Judge Sontchi Cuts Off U.S. Trustee Fees on Confirmation of a Chapter 11 Plan
Closing a chapter 11 case after confirmation to avoid U.S. Trustee fees won’t be necessary if the ruling by Judge Sontchi holds up.
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Increasing Debtor’s Profit or Revenue Isn’t Required to Establish an ‘Admin’ Claim
An administrative creditor isn’t a ‘guarantor’ of the success of the project, Delaware’s Bankruptcy Judge Goldblatt says.
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Circuits Are Now Split on the Constitutionality of the 2018 Increase in U.S. Trustee Fees
The Second Circuit split with the Fourth and Fifth Circuits by holding that the increase in fees for the U.S. Trustee system was unconstitutional because it was not imposed simultaneously in the two states with bankruptcy administrators.
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Another Circuit Upholds the 2018 Increase in U.S. Trustee Fees
Dissenters in the Fourth and Fifth Circuits evidently believe that the dual U.S. Trustee/Bankruptcy Administrator system is unconstitutional.
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A District Court Rules that the U.S. Trustee Fee Increase Isn’t Retroactive
California district judge sides with the dissenter in the Fifth Circuit in saying that the parallel systems of U.S. Trustees and Bankruptcy Administrators violates the Bankruptcy Clause of the Constitution.
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