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What’s On at a Courthouse Near You
In addition to a post last week broadly raising visitors' physicial interaction with courts, an earlier post discussed variation in the website availability of daily calendars for U.S. bankruptcy...
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Representation and Realities of (Bankruptcy) Court Work
The Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities held a symposium on "Courts: Representing and Contesting Ideologies of the Public Sphere" in 2011, and recently published papers from this event. Some of the...
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Bankruptcy Court Calls
In connection with some ongoing research, I have noticed that U.S. bankruptcy courts have different approaches to informing the public about matters being taken up in open court. Many provide PDFs of...
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Article 9 and Bankruptcy Judges
A prior post addressed a proposed amendment to Article 9's official comments stating that the date of an Article 9 filing relates back to the initial filing date even if the debtor did NOT authorize...
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Speaking of Student Loans . . .
President Obama is at UNC-Chapel Hill today to talk about student loan interest rates. His speech should be streamed here at around 1:15 pm EST according to recent estimates.
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Recommended reading: Broome on Article 9 Financing Statements
A few weeks ago I wrote about the importance of giving priority to an Article 9 financing statement only from the date on which the debtor actually authorizes the filing, and a proposed official...
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Promoting Integrity in the UCC Article 9 Recording System
On January 1, 2011, Larry files a UCC-1 financing statement against David indicating David's equipment as collateral. At this point, David doesn't even know Larry, has not given him a security...
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Credit for Parenthood (in the Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal Reporter Jessica Silver-Greenberg casts a spotlight on the market for fertility treatment loans – including loans that enable the purchase of other women's eggs - in the article...
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Break up Bank of America?
Steve's title was subtle, so in case anyone missed it, here are the materials on Public Citizen's website. The petition calls on the Federal Reserve and the Financial Stability Oversight Commission to...
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Should the Government or the Market Set Mortgage Down Payments? A New Study
UNC's Center for Community Capital has posted a new analysis of 19.5 million mortgage loans originated between 2000 and 2008 finding that mandatory down payments of 10% would lock out nearly 40% of...
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Your Favorite Business Bankruptcy/Restructuring Lingo: A Word of Thanks
Just a word of gratitude to readers for providing great responses to the prior call for corporate bankruptcy lingo. Thanks to your help, UNC Law's advanced business bankruptcy students are...
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Foreclosure Timelines and Mortgage Delinquency: More Evidence from Bankruptcy
At the end of a lively session yesterday at Duke Law School featuring Professor Stephen Ware of University of Kansas Law School, there was a brief discussion of whether shorter foreclosure timelines...
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What is the Relationship Between Credit Cards and Mortgage Delinquency?
Previously I mentioned this new paper on homeowners in bankruptcy in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal. The central goal of the paper was to investigate what makes homeowners more or less likely to...
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Understanding Anna Nicole Smith (or, at least, Stern v. Marshall): A...
Led by my colleague Elizabeth Gibson, four members of the National Bankruptcy Conference have produced a fantastic analysis of the Stern v. Marshall U.S. Supreme Court decision (that most recently has...
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In or Out of Mortgage Trouble? A Study of Bankrupt Homeowners
This is a newly published paper in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal that I was lucky to work on with Daniel McCue and Eric Belsky at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University....
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Your Favorite Business Bankruptcy/Restructuring Lingo?
One more quick poll: off the top of your head, what lingo/cryptic terms do business bankruptcy professionals use regularly that are important to understanding the operation of the system in the real...
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How Does the New Federal Venue Law Affect Corporate Bankruptcy?
On December 7, 2011, President Obama signed the Federal Courts Jurisdiction and Venue Clarification Act of 2011, H.R. 394, P.L. 112-63. The bill does not amend 28 U.S.C. 1408, the primary venue...
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One in Five American Families Have Medical Bill Problems
According to this new report. As Mirya Holman and I have explained in the bankruptcy context, measuring medical bill problems and debt is notoriously contested, but the Center for Studying Health...
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The Value(s) of Foreclosure Law Reform?
As Alan White reported recently, the Uniform Law Commission in the U.S. has named a committee to consider the need for and feasibility of proposing a uniform foreclosure act and to report back to the...
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Revamping the Advanced Bankruptcy Class
Thanks, Bob, for welcoming me back. I'd like to start with a quick poll. Credit Slips readers, off the top of your head, what short writings (say 5 pages or fewer) should law students be doing that...
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