Bankruptcy

In Adversity and Justice: A History of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Kevin Ball takes a closer look at the history and evolution of this court.

Using a variety of sources from newspaper accounts and interviews to personal documentation from key people throughout the court’s history, Ball explores not only the history of the court from its beginning in the late nineteenth century but also two major courthouse scandals and their significant and long-lasting effects on the court.

The book culminates with a comprehensive account of the city of Detroit’s own bankruptcy case that was filed in 2013. Drawing on the author’s expertise as both a longtime bankruptcy attorney and a political scientist, the book examines this landmark case in its legal, social, historical, and political contexts. Anyone with an interest in bankruptcy, legal history, or the city of Detroit’s bankruptcy case will be attracted to this thorough case study of this court.

In this illuminating work, Ronald J. Mann offers readers a comprehensive study of bankruptcy cases in the Supreme Court of the United States. He provides detailed case studies based on the Justices' private papers on the most closely divided cases, statistical analysis of variation among the Justices in their votes for and against effective bankruptcy relief, and new information about the appearance in opinions of citations taken from party and amici briefs. By focusing on cases that have neither a clear answer under the statute nor important policy constraints, the book unveils the decision-making process of the Justices themselves - what they do when they are left to their own devices. It should be read by anyone interested not only in the jurisprudence of bankruptcy, but also in the inner workings of the Supreme Court.

This book was written to fill the gap between the purely problem-driven and the wholly case-law approaches in the available teaching materials for bankruptcy. The book deals with both consumer and business bankruptcies and avoids an unremitting political or theoretical perspective. Coverage includes creditors’ rights and remedies, the first consequences of bankruptcy, unsecured claims in bankruptcy, secured claims in bankruptcy, avoiding powers, executory contracts and unexpired leases, discharge, and reorganization. The new edition features the latest cases, both as principal cases and as the foundation for questions and problems.

Bankruptcy Road Map is designed to guide you through the bankruptcy process for both Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 cases. Mapped to assist the nonbankruptcy practitioner faced with bankruptcy issues, the journey begins with representation strategies for both debtors and creditors at the time of filing of the bankruptcy petition and ends with the treatment of dischargeability issues. Stops along the way include the automatic stay, means testing, proofs of claim, and avoidance action.

This book highlights the problems of dealing with large financial institutions in distress, without incurring either spillover distress to other institutions or relying on government bailout, and Chapter 14’s responses to those twin issues, as well as recommending other measures that would facilitate successful resolutions. The contributors first outline the basic features of Chapter 14 as originally proposed in 2012 vis-à-vis the reorganization or liquidation of an operating company and point to their continuation as well as additional features to ensure the quick resolution of large financial institutions that would not depend on government discretion and would mesh with emerging ideas about cross-border resolution.

The remaining chapters provide the context for reform, outline the fundamental principles of reform, show how reform would work in practice, and show how Chapter 14, as envisioned in this book, would be a substantial advance on administrative-focused resolution procedures.

Pronske's Texas Bankruptcy, Annotated, covers the latest information on Texas bankruptcy law including:Amendments to the Bankruptcy Code, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, National Bankruptcy Rules, Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, & Local Bankruptcy Rules.

The multiple choice and short answer questions in Questions & Answers: Bankruptcy test not only students' knowledge of the bankruptcy code but also their knowledge of how the code occasionally intersects with other related sources of law such as Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code as well as various parts of state property and family law.

Revised and expanded, this valuable, two-volume, desk reference presents the totality of the restructuring process as it is practiced today, with detailed explanations of the laws, customs, and techniques that are central to restructurings. This comprehensive treatise covers in-depth treatment of chapter 11 reorganizations; out-of-court restructurings; specialized restructuring situations (such as prepackaged plans, transnational restructurings and cross-border insolvencies, mass tort cases, and airline cases); and the implications of related areas of law, including taxation, securities, environmental, intellectual property, labor and employment, lender liability, criminal, financial market, and competition law.

This book provides a detailed introduction to bankruptcy and related state and federal debtor-creditor law. It is equally useful in an introductory Creditors’ Rights course that emphasizes bankruptcy; a free-standing Bankruptcy course; or an advanced course in Chapter 11 Reorganization. It provides an ample explanation of the issues likely to arise in any of these courses, specifically including issues raised by the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005. It is also a useful and inexpensive single-volume guide for new and experienced bankruptcy practitioners