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In re: Glance

Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A security interest in a debtor's property is a "noncontingent, liquidated, secured debt[]" under section 109(e) of the Bankruptcy Code.

Asbestos Settlement Trust v. City of New York

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Product Liability
In appeal involving asbestos property damage claims by appellee city that the claims administrator of the Asbestos Settlement Trust allowed but the...

Preferred Capital, Inc. v. Sarasota Kennel Club, Inc.

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Contracts
State law, as opposed to federal law, controls the interpretation of a forum selection clause when the clause is raised as the sole basis for personal...

US v. Holthaus

Bankruptcy Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
A sentence and restitution order imposed for defendant's knowingly and fraudulently making a false declaration or statement in connection with his...

In Re: Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether Prod. Liab. Litig.

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Oil and Gas Law, Product Liability, Water Law
In suits originally filed by California and New Hampshire in their respective state courts against corporations that manufactured, refined, marketed,...

In Re: Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether Prod. Liab. Litig.

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Oil and Gas Law, Product Liability, Water Law
In suits originally filed by California and New Hampshire in their respective state courts against corporations that manufactured, refined, marketed,...

State of Texas v. Soileau

Bankruptcy Law, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law & Procedure, Debt Collection, Government Law
In a Chapter 7 bankruptcy case involving the potential discharge of a state's forfeiture judgments against licensed bail bondsman, who served as...

Brown v. Pyatt

Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Debt Collection
In a Chapter 7 bankruptcy case in which the bankruptcy petition did not list several checks which had been written prior to the debtor's filing but...

Liberty Mut. Fire Ins. Co. v. Scott

Bankruptcy Law, Contracts, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an insurer's declaratory judgment action against defendant seeking a declaration that its property insurance policy afforded no coverage for fire...

In re: DSC, Ltd.

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Debt Collection, Property Law & Real Estate
In litigation arising from an amended petition for involuntary bankruptcy filed by plaintiffs, dismissal of the petition due to a lack of a sufficient...