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A Primer for Creditors Navigating the Bankruptcy System

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Bankruptcy filings affect businesses across America. The Bankruptcy Code is complex and difficult to navigate.  But used properly, it can helpcreditors to minimize losses when a customer files bankruptcy. ...more

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Compilation of Recent Developments in Bankruptcy Law - April 2023

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Recent Developments in Bankruptcy Law - Cumulative, through April 2023 - 1. AUTOMATIC STAY - 1.1 Covered Activities - 1.1.a Court denies injunction against actions involving debtors’ affiliates. Shortly after filing...more

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Orlansky v. Quicken Loans, LLC & ‎Violations of the Automatic Stay

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Notices of filing bankruptcy from debtors to its creditors are intended to halt all collection efforts of prepetition debts. But where lenders are required by law to provide information to mortgagors who are debtors in...more

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Compilation of Recent Developments in Bankruptcy Law - January 2023

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1. AUTOMATIC STAY - 1.1 Covered Activities - 1.1.a Court declines to enjoin third party claims against the debtor’s jointly liable parent corporation. The debtor manufactured earplugs for many years. A major...more

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Recent Developments in Bankruptcy Law, January 2023

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1. AUTOMATIC STAY - 1.1 Covered Activities - 1.1.a Court declines to enjoin third party claims against the debtor’s jointly liable parent corporation. The debtor manufactured earplugs for many years. A major multinational...more

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Recent Developments in Bankruptcy Law Update - July 2022

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Covered Activities - 1.1.a Order granting counterclaim declaring validity of mortgage on the debtor’s property does not violate the stay. The debtor acquired property subject to a disputed mortgage. The debtor brought a...more

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Repossessions and Bankruptcy Post-COVID, Post-Fulton [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 26]

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COVID-19’s economic impact on borrowers’ ability to repay loans has had major repercussions for auto lenders, and the U.S. Supreme Court recently issued a decision relating to repossessions in bankruptcy. In this episode of...more

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Just Hold on: The Supreme Court Rules That a Creditor’s Mere Retention of Property Lawfully Seized Prepetition Does Not Violate...

In a case with significant implications for the practices of the lending industry, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in early 2021 that a secured creditor that lawfully repossesses collateral does not have an affirmative...more

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Bankruptcy: The Mechanics of Exemptions and Related Issues

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Most bankruptcy attorneys have a basic level of understanding of the how exemptions work. At a very broad level, a claim of exemptions removes property of a consumer debtor (note that business debtors are not afforded...more

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"Mere Retention” of Property Does Not Violate the Automatic Stay

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Earlier this year, the United States Supreme Court resolved an important question for banks, credit unions and other creditors who have a security interest in personal property owned by a debtor and lawfully take possession...more

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Repossessions And bankruptcy: What The Fulton Decision Means For Turnover

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The February Supreme Court decision in City of Chicago v. Fulton was widely celebrated in the lending community because the court found that a lender who repossesses a vehicle before a borrower files for bankruptcy is not in...more

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Vehicle Finance Lenders Beware: The Coming Wave Of Post-Fulton Automatic Stay And Turnover Adversary Proceedings

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By now, you likely are aware of the recent Supreme Court decision in City of Chicago, Illinois v. Fulton. The Court rightly found that merely retaining possession of a vehicle repossessed pre-petition is not a violation of...more

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Bankruptcy Case Leads to Favorable Ruling for Creditors Holding Property

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that mere retention of property does not violate the automatic stay during bankruptcy. As the first quarter of 2021 wanes, the U.S. has reached the one-year anniversary of a national business...more

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Supreme Court Holds that “Mere Retention” of Estate Property After Bankruptcy Filing Doesn't Violate the Automatic Stay

On January 14, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court decided City of Chicago, Illinois v. Fulton (Case No. 19-357, Jan. 14, 2021), a case which examined whether merely retaining estate property after a bankruptcy filing violates the...more

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Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights Alert – February 2021

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RETAINING POSSESSION OF A VEHICLE DOES NOT VIOLATE THE AUTOMATIC STAY – CHICAGO V. FULTON - The Supreme Court of the United States recently offered some clarity on one of the many issues creditors face when a borrower,...more

Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP

The Supreme Court Teaches A Lesson In Passive Non-Aggression: City of Chicago v. Fulton

In a recent decision, the U.S. Supreme Court gave a narrow win to creditors in a dispute over the proper interpretation of the automatic stay provisions in the Bankruptcy Code, ruling that creditors may passively retain a...more

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Supreme Court Rules that Possession of Estate Property Does Not Violate Automatic Stay

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On January 14, the Supreme Court ruled that more than a mere retention of estate property is needed for a party to violate the automatic stay, vacating and remanding a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh...more

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Supreme Court Clarifies That Section 362(a)(3) Does Not Prohibit the Mere Retention of a Debtor’s Property

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The Supreme Court has lowered (but not eliminated) the risk that a creditor violates the automatic stay by retaining a debtor’s property post-petition. On January 14, 2021, the Supreme Court ruled 8-0 (Justice Barrett...more

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U.S. Supreme Court: Mere Retention of Property Does Not Violate the Automatic Stay

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The Situation: Circuit courts were split on whether mere retention by a creditor of estate property violates the Bankruptcy Code's automatic stay, under 11 U.S.C. § 362(a)(3). The U.S. Supreme Court considered the question in...more

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To Return or Not To Return. That Is The Question.

Most lawyers and bankers understand the basic terms of the automatic stay when a Debtor files bankruptcy. 11 USC section 362 applies to all bankruptcy chapters and provides as follows: (a)Except as provided in subsection...more

Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP

Supreme Court Breaks Divide: Mere Retention Of Debtor Property Is Not A Stay Violation

The United States Supreme Court has resolved a split among lower courts on the issue of whether a lessor who repossesses debtor collateral on eve of bankruptcy violates the automatic stay by failing to surrender such property...more

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Supreme Court Holds Creditor Retention of Debtor’s Property Does Not Violate "Automatic Stay"

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The Supreme Court of the United States recently issued a decision regarding the scope of the “automatic stay” codified at section 362 of the Bankruptcy Code. By way of background, the filing of a bankruptcy petition...more

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The Automatic Stay: Supreme Court Finds that Retaining Debtors’ Property, Despite Turnover Demands, is Not a Stay Violation

If a creditor is holding property of a party that files bankruptcy, is it “exercising control over” such property (and violating the automatic stay) by refusing the debtor’s turnover demands? According to the Supreme Court,...more

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Mere Retention of Property of the Estate Does Not Violate the Automatic Stay

The Supreme Court of the United States has resolved a split in the circuits as to whether an entity that is passively retaining possession of property in which a bankruptcy estate has an interest has an affirmative obligation...more

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Supreme Court Holds that Mere Retention of Property Does Not Violate the Automatic Stay

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The Supreme Court of the United States on January 14, 2021, issued a decision in the case of City of Chicago v. Fulton that favors creditors in a bankruptcy case. The Court held that a creditor’s “mere retention” of property...more

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