Consumer Law Updates
"All the things no one has asked me about—yet." Features news, commentary, practice musings and developments in consumer and bankruptcy law primarily for a legal audience.
Author: Elaine M. Dowling is a bankruptcy and consumer law attorney in Oklahoma City.
Blawg Related Categories: Bankruptcy Law • Consumer Law • Law Firms • Solos/Small Firms • States • Oklahoma • Solo / Small Firm
Recent Posts from Consumer Law Updates
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Small Business Bankruptcies
USAToday just ran an interesting article on small business bankruptcies. This article makes several interesting points about the rising numbers of small business failures and the impact that will have on the economy. What I…
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Court Slaps Legal Assistant Directly
The Bankruptcy Court for the E.D. of New York handed down a very unusual opinion early this month. If you are interested the case is Adams v. Giordano, et al. (In re: Clarke, et al),…
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Today I Have Hope for Real Bankruptcy Reform
Today, I have hope. On January 6, 2009 Sen. Dick Durbin intruduced Senate bill 61, known as the Helping Families Save Their Homes in Bankruptcy Act. Identical legislation has been introduced in the House by…
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Getting Paid by the U.S. Trustee
I love reading opinions where the winning attorney had way more in the guts category than I do. Dennis Feld, a fellow NACBA member from New Mexico, has just gotten a written opinion out of…
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Discharge Violations
Countrywide has just been spanked to the tune of $55,000 for a discharge violation involving a mortgage. Debtor’s counsel is providing the details here. The basic facts are that Debtor filed a Chapter 7, did…
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Honesty Really is the Best Policy
Federal prosecutors have arrested four people in West Virginia for attempted bankruptcy fraud. (According to story reported by WSAZ.com.) Pretty straight forward stuff really. They were all caught attempting to hide assets. The examples listed…
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Interest Rates and Bankruptcy Reform
Anyone else remember the arguments being made by the credit card industry that abusive bankruptcy filings were forcing up interst costs? Bankruptcies under the old law were supposed to be costing everyone of us $400…
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Can You Still Stiff the Trustee and Get Your Taxes Paid Too?
This is the last post on In re: Graves — unless, I think of something else. The Graves opinion mentioned something in passing that I had almost forgotten about. Gee, does that mean that I…
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It’s the Economy Stupid
I was watching election results, and saw a segment on Pennsylvania. The gist of the segment is the reporter’s belief that Pennsylvania would have gone heavily for John McCain last spring, but the decline in…
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Graves Pt. 2 — or, Why the Trustee Still Loses
My last post was about a scintillating BAP opinion that used language like, “blood out of a turnip” and “contingent reversionary interest”. In that post I explained why a Trustee cannot recover from the Debtor…