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MILLER v. CHATEAU CMTYS., INC.

Bankruptcy Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Where the trustee in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy does not move to assume or reject an outstanding lease of the debtor, under 11 U.S.C. section 365(g)(1),...

IN RE: WARNER

Bankruptcy Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law
Parties willing to settle disputes over fraud, misrepresentation, or like tort claims may do so by way of settlement through contract, and such...

IN RE: CANNEY

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Property Law & Real Estate
The time limitations of 11 U.S.C. section 108(b), and not the automatic stay provisions of section 362(a), govern the tolling of a period of equitable...

IN RE: RFE INDUS., INC.

Bankruptcy Law
Where a bankruptcy court disapproves a settlement between the former bankruptcy trustee and another party on the grounds that the debtor has not...

MAC PANEL CO. v. VIRGINIA PANEL CORP.

Bankruptcy Law, Contracts
Where a debtor's Chapter 11 plan of reorganization has been approved and substantially consummated, and reversal of the confirmation order would...

IN RE: VENTURE MORTGAGE FUND, L.P.

Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law
Loans bearing annual interest rates exceeding 25% violate the plain language of New York's criminal usury statute and are void ab initio; thus, the...

MURPHY v. PA HIGHER EDUCATION ASSISTANCE AGENCY

Bankruptcy Law, Education Law
It is the purpose, not the use, of federally guaranteed educational loans that controls whether they are dischargeable in bankruptcy; thus, 11 U.S.C....

SHEEHAN v. MOREHEAD

Bankruptcy Law, Contracts, Insurance Law
Payments made to a Chapter 7 debtor under a privately purchased disability insurance policy are partially exempt from the bankruptcy estate under West...

YOUNG v. US

Bankruptcy Law, Tax Law
The lookback period under Section 507(a)(8)(A)(i) of the Bankruptcy Code is tolled during the pendency of a prior bankruptcy petition, making an IRS...

WALTER v. PRUZINSKY

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure
Where there was a discrepancy between an order entered by the bankruptcy court and the court's stated intent regarding how the order should read,...