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In re Sunnyslope Housing Ltd. Partnership

Bankruptcy Law
In a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, the district court's decision affirming the Chapter 11 plan of reorganization is affirmed where the bankruptcy court...

Demetrius v. Transport Workers Union of Am.

Bankruptcy Law, Labor & Employment Law
In two consolidated actions brought under the Railway Labor Act, alleging a union's breach of the duty of fair representation in the decision to...

Midland Funding, LLC v. Johnson

Bankruptcy Law, Debt Collection
In an action under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. sections 1692e and 1692f, arising out of a Chapter 13 bankruptcy case in which a...

In re: Giacchi

Bankruptcy Law, Tax Law
In an appeal involving the issue of whether Internal Revenue Service Forms 1040, filed after the IRS has made an assessment of the taxpayer's...

In re: Lehman Bros.

Bankruptcy Law, Securities Law
In a Chapter 11 bankruptcy appeal by thousands of former employees of debtor who held restricted stock units that were rendered worthless after the...

In re: The Trustees of Conneaut Lake PArk, Inc.

Bankruptcy Law, Insurance Law, Tax Law
In a bankruptcy case involving 40 Pa. Stat. section 638, which prohibits insurance companies from paying fire insurance proceeds to a 'named insured'...

Mastan v. Salamon

Bankruptcy Law
In a Chapter 11 case, the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel's decision affirming the bankruptcy court's order disallowing a claim is affirmed where under 11...

In re Tronox Inc.

Bankruptcy Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an appeal of a district court order enforcing a permanent anti‐suit injunction issued after a bankruptcy settlement, involving the toxic tort...

Privitera v. Curran

Bankruptcy Law
In a Chapter 7 liquidation proceeding involving a creditor-plaintiff's attempt to avail herself of two exemptions from debt discharge, the bankruptcy...

Porter v. Nabors Drilling USA, L.P.

Bankruptcy Law
In a lawsuit asserting a claim under California's Private Attorney General Act of 2004 (PAGA), the court grants defendant's motion to recognize an...