The “Snapshot” Rule – Part 1: The Circuits Begin to Line Up

MFA isn’t just an inconvenience - it’s your digital seatbelt, and in a world of escalating cyber threats, failing to use it is like refusing to buckle up on the freeway.

Part 1 of this series introduced the purpose of these articles and discussed four fundamental rules relating to motion practice. This second article takes a deeper dive into one of those rules, Rule 9014.

In the continually evolving field of consumer bankruptcy law, a series of Supreme Court decisions shape how cases are administered nationwide. Over the coming weeks, we will highlight key decisions that every bankruptcy practitioner should recognize—both by name and by the issues they resolve. This week’s ‘memory work’ is: Johnson v. Homestate Bank; Harrington v. Purdue Pharma; Bartenwerfer v. Buckley; Fulton

Once a Chapter 13 case is completed and the debtor receives a discharge, the trustee cannot seek to reopen the case for the purpose of grabbing an undisclosed, prepetition asset and then converting the case to a Chapter 7 so it could be administered.