PHILADELPHIA — A panel of the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on June 6 ruled that a state court award in a divorce proceeding was nondischargeable because the debtor&rsq ...

A panel of the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on June 4 affirmed a lower court’s ruling that a debtor’s obligation to creditors who had sued him for damages was non ...

A New York bankruptcy judge on June 5 ruled that a lender, its agent and an official presiding over a foreclosure sale violated the automatic stay in bankruptcy proceeding when the ...

This recent news article has been making the rounds of the LexisNexis bankruptcy editorial staff: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/7534195

A panel of the 10th Circuit on May 19 said a lender was entitled to pursue claims against two groups of debtors related to the surrender of vehicles under the Hanging Paragraph of the Bankruptcy Code.

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TOPEKA, Kan. — A Kansas bankruptcy judge on April 4 ruled that a debtor’s student loan obligations did not meet the criteria for special circumstances under 11 U.S. Code Section 707(b)(1) and said the case would be dismissed if the debtor ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — An Illinois federal judge on April 4 ruled that a debtor willfully concealed a pending lawsuit for wrongful termination against his former employer when he filed for bankruptcy and granted summary judgment to the former employ ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Kentucky federal judge on April 4 affirmed a bankruptcy court’s ruling that a creditor had standing to pursue an adversary complaint against the debtor and held that the record did not indicate that the debtor properly m ...

ST. LOUIS — An Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on April 2 affirmed a lower court’s decision that a bankruptcy court did not err in failing to confirm a debtor couple’s bankruptcy plan because it was “not feasible&rdqu ...