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Full-Text Articles in Law
Debtor Needs To Have Benefitted From Fraud To Be Barred A Discharge Under 11 U.S.C. § 523(A)(2)(A), Elizabeth Tighe
Debtor Needs To Have Benefitted From Fraud To Be Barred A Discharge Under 11 U.S.C. § 523(A)(2)(A), Elizabeth Tighe
Bankruptcy Research Library
(Excerpt)
Title 11 of the United States Code (the “Bankruptcy Code”) provides that a court may grant a debtor a discharge of its debts, subject to certain conditions and exceptions. One exception to dischargeability is set forth in section 523(a)(2)(A), which bars a discharge from debt “for money, property, services, or an extension, renewal, or refinancing of credit, to the extent obtained by . . . false pretenses, a false representation, or actual fraud, other than a statement respecting the debtor's or an insider's financial condition.”
A key phrase in the statute is “obtained by” and courts have applied a …
When Is A Debt "Obtained By" Fraud?: Reconsideration Of The Fraud Nondischargeability Exception Under Section 523(A)(2) Of The Bankruptcy Code, Theresa J. Pulley Radwan
When Is A Debt "Obtained By" Fraud?: Reconsideration Of The Fraud Nondischargeability Exception Under Section 523(A)(2) Of The Bankruptcy Code, Theresa J. Pulley Radwan
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Chief Loophole Officer Or Chief Legal Officer: Inside Lehman Brothers—A Film Case Study About Corporate And Legal Ethics, Garrick Apollon
Chief Loophole Officer Or Chief Legal Officer: Inside Lehman Brothers—A Film Case Study About Corporate And Legal Ethics, Garrick Apollon
St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics
This Article discusses the continuing legal education (CLE) visual advocacy documentary-style program, which Garrick Apollon (author of this Article) researched and developed. The case study for this CLE documentary-style program is the film Inside Lehman Brothers—a documentary film by Jennifer Deschamps which chronicles the story of the Lehman whistleblowers. The film presents Mathew Lee, former senior vice president overseeing Lehman’s global balance sheet; Oliver Budde, former in-house counsel (associate general counsel) of the Lehman Brothers; and the racialized female mid-tier manager whistleblowers, who all paid a steep price in the 2008 American subprime mortgage crisis, while many of the …
A District Court May Not Enjoin Third-Party Claims Against Insurers In A Securities-Fraud Receivership Without Alternative Compensation Scheme, Justin Henderson
A District Court May Not Enjoin Third-Party Claims Against Insurers In A Securities-Fraud Receivership Without Alternative Compensation Scheme, Justin Henderson
Bankruptcy Research Library
(Excerpt)
Within its equitable power, a district court may place the assets of a defendant into receivership and appoint a receiver to protect a plaintiff’s interest in property where the rights over that property are disputed. In general, the purpose of this equity receivership is to marshal assets, preserve value, equitably distribute to creditors, and, either reorganize, or orderly liquidate. This power is an extraordinary remedy only justified by extreme situations, such as where there is a high probability that fraudulent conduct has occurred or will occur to frustrate the claim, or when there is a threat that the disputed …
Constructive Trusts And Fraudulent Transfers: When Worlds Collide, David G. Carlson
Constructive Trusts And Fraudulent Transfers: When Worlds Collide, David G. Carlson
Articles
When Ponzi schemes collapse and enter into bankruptcy liquidation, bankruptcy trustees assume that conveyances made by the debtor for no consideration are fraudulent conveyances. This Article argues that they are not. Virtually all the assets held by a Ponzi scheme are held in constructive trust for the victims of the fraud. If victims of the fraud can trace the proceeds of their investments into property transferred to a third party, the third party holds the asset transferred in trust for the relevant victim. When a bankruptcy trustee characterizes the asset as a fraudulently conveyed asset, the trustee expropriates the asset …
Domestic Asset Tracing And Recovery Of Hidden Assets And The Spoils Of Financial Crime, Nathan Wadlinger, Carl Pacini, Nicole Stowell, William Hopwood, Debra Sinclair
Domestic Asset Tracing And Recovery Of Hidden Assets And The Spoils Of Financial Crime, Nathan Wadlinger, Carl Pacini, Nicole Stowell, William Hopwood, Debra Sinclair
St. Mary's Law Journal
Abstract forthcoming
Stop Right There! Assessing The Role Of Collateral Estoppel In A Fraud Proceeding Against A Debtor And A Debtor-Owned Business, Brandon Dorman
Stop Right There! Assessing The Role Of Collateral Estoppel In A Fraud Proceeding Against A Debtor And A Debtor-Owned Business, Brandon Dorman
Bankruptcy Research Library
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In an adversary proceeding, under section 523(a)(2)(A) of title 11 of the United States Code (the “Bankruptcy Code”), to determine the non-dischargeability of a debt based upon fraud, a state courts finding of fraud against a debtor-owned business may collaterally estop the debtor in the adversary proceeding from relitigating the issue of fraud. Essential to this issue is the timing at which the debtor filed for bankruptcy. Timing is critical in determining whether the prior decision against the debtor-owned business in the state court action collaterally estopped the litigation against the debtor or whether the debtor was afforded the …
Husky International Electronics, Inc. V. Ritz: Rethinking Actual Fraud, Badges Of Fraud, And Pleading Standards In Federal Bankruptcy Litigation, Meagan George
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
No Misrepresentation Needed: Excepting Discharge For Actual Fraud Under 11 U.S.C. § 523 Without Misrepresentation, Morgan Green
No Misrepresentation Needed: Excepting Discharge For Actual Fraud Under 11 U.S.C. § 523 Without Misrepresentation, Morgan Green
Fordham Law Review
Imagine buying a game from a seller and promising to repay him at a later date. However, instead of repayment, you decide to give the game to your friend, who in turn allows you to use it. Then your friend declares bankruptcy to discharge the price of the game from his debts, thus allowing you both to use it without paying. This repayment runaround is the issue that the First and Fifth Circuits were asked to decide in two recent cases. Specifically, the question was whether a debt incurred by “actual fraud” may be discharged by the recipient of the …
A Showing Of Gross Recklessness Satisfies Section 523(A)(2)(A): Denying Deceivers The Ability To Discharge Debts Related To Fraudulently Obtained Funds, Megan Kuzniewski
A Showing Of Gross Recklessness Satisfies Section 523(A)(2)(A): Denying Deceivers The Ability To Discharge Debts Related To Fraudulently Obtained Funds, Megan Kuzniewski
Bankruptcy Research Library
(Excerpt)
11 U.S.C. Section 523(a) lists certain debts that may not be discharged through a debtor’s bankruptcy. In particular, section 523(a)(2)(A) provides that a debtor who files bankruptcy will not be discharged of debts that were obtained by “false pretenses, a false representation, or actual fraud, other than a statement respecting the debtor’s or an insider’s financial condition.” False representations, such as those described in section 523(a)(2)(A), carry a scienter requirement which requires that it be shown that an individual knowingly made false statements or representations. This requirement carries a heavy burden, as trying to prove that a person had …
Commodity Futures Trading Commission V. Weintraub, Thomas R. Himmelspach
Commodity Futures Trading Commission V. Weintraub, Thomas R. Himmelspach
Akron Law Review
After presenting a general discussion of the attorney-client privilege, this casenote will discuss the facts underlying Weintraub and then review the rationales of the Seventh Circuit and the Supreme Court in their respective holdings. This casenote will discuss other arguments which have been raised in support of the trustee's authority over the privilege. The casenote will conclude with a discussion of other policy and precedent arguments which urge that the trustee should not be given this authority.
Fraud And Defalcation By A Fiduciary: The Amorphous Exception To Bankruptcy Discharge, H.C. Jones Iii
Fraud And Defalcation By A Fiduciary: The Amorphous Exception To Bankruptcy Discharge, H.C. Jones Iii
University of Baltimore Law Review
No abstract provided.
An Assignee Has The Same Right Of Non-Dischargeability Under Section 523(A)(2)(B) As The Assignor, Justin W. Curcio
An Assignee Has The Same Right Of Non-Dischargeability Under Section 523(A)(2)(B) As The Assignor, Justin W. Curcio
Bankruptcy Research Library
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The Bankruptcy Code affords an “honest but unfortunate debtor” a “fresh start” by discharging certain prior financial obligations of the debtor. The bankruptcy process allows debtors to “reorder their affairs, make peace with their creditors, and enjoy ‘a new opportunity in life with a clear field for future effort, unhampered by the pressure and discouragement of preexisting debt.’” However, there are limitations on a debtor’s ability to obtain a discharge. For example, a creditor that lent money to a debtor based on a fraudulent writing can seek a determination that the debt is non-dischargeabile under section 523(a)(2)(B).
Issues arise …
Securities Class Actions And Bankrupt Companies, James J. Park
Securities Class Actions And Bankrupt Companies, James J. Park
Michigan Law Review
Securities class actions are often criticized as wasteful strike suits that target temporary fluctuations in the stock prices of otherwise healthy companies. The securities class actions brought by investors of Enron and WorldCom, companies that fell into bankruptcy in the wake of fraud, resulted in the recovery of billions of dollars in permanent shareholder losses and provide a powerful counterexample to this critique. An issuer's bankruptcy may affect how judges and parties perceive securities class actions and their merits, yet little is known about the subset of cases where the company is bankrupt. This is the first extensive empirical study …
The Law Of Ponzi Payouts, Spencer A. Winters
The Law Of Ponzi Payouts, Spencer A. Winters
Michigan Law Review
When a Ponzi scheme collapses, there will typically be net winners and net losers. The bankruptcy trustee will often seek to force the net winners - those who received more money back from the Ponzi scheme than they invested - to disgorge their profits. Courts diverge on whether they should compel disgorgement in this instance. This Note argues that under prevailing fraudulent transfer law, net winners in a Ponzi scheme need not disgorge their profits. This is because the investor's dollar-for-dollar discharge of a preexisting debt constitutes the transfer of value in exchange for the payout. There are two exceptions …
Righting Others' Wrongs: A Critical Analysis Of Clawback Suits In The Wake Of Madoff-Type Ponzi Schemes And Other Financial Frauds, Amy Sepinwall
Righting Others' Wrongs: A Critical Analysis Of Clawback Suits In The Wake Of Madoff-Type Ponzi Schemes And Other Financial Frauds, Amy Sepinwall
Amy J. Sepinwall
In a typical Ponzi scheme, early investors earn “profits” not through any legitimate investment activity on the part of the Ponzi scheme operator; instead the operator simply transfers money that later investors deposit to the earlier investors who seek redemptions. As such, when the scheme goes bust, as it must, the Ponzi scheme operator will not have enough money to cover all of the investors’ deposits, let alone the earnings on those deposits that the investors thought they were owed. Should the scheme’s winners – i.e., those who withdrew more money than they deposited – be compelled to return their …
Falling Short: Has The Sec’S Quest To Control Market Manipulation And Abusive Short-Selling Come To An End Or Has It Really Just Begun?, Richard Ramirez
Falling Short: Has The Sec’S Quest To Control Market Manipulation And Abusive Short-Selling Come To An End Or Has It Really Just Begun?, Richard Ramirez
Richard E. Ramirez, J.D. | CFCS
No abstract provided.
The Nondischargeability Of Student Loans In Personal Bankruptcy Proceedings: The Search For A Theory, John A. E. Pottow
The Nondischargeability Of Student Loans In Personal Bankruptcy Proceedings: The Search For A Theory, John A. E. Pottow
Articles
In fiscal year 2002, approximately 5.8 million Americans borrowed $38 billion (USD) in federal student loans. This was more than triple the $11.7 billion borrowed in 1990. As a rule of thumb, tuition has been increasing at roughly double the rate of inflation in recent years. This troubling trend of accelerating tuition, coupled with the fact that real income has stagnated for men and increased only modestly for women over the past two decades, means that more and more students are going to need to turn to borrowed money to finance their degrees absent a radical restructuring of the postsecondary …
The Maxwell Case, John A. E. Pottow
The Maxwell Case, John A. E. Pottow
Book Chapters
This chapter will provide some broader context regarding the famous Maxwell Communication bankruptcy, which is one of the most significant cross-border insolvency precedents to date.1 It does so by first looking at Bob Maxwell's life and business in roughly chronological stages (the good, the bad, and the ugly). It then explores the insolvency proceedings that bear his name (the beautiful) and one specific litigation action within those proceedings of particular importance (the exquisite). Finally, it offers some brief reflection on what the Maxwell case may have taught us (the sublime).
Proprietary Relief Without Rescission, Hang Wu Tang
Proprietary Relief Without Rescission, Hang Wu Tang
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
The decision of the Court of Appeal in Halley v. The Law Society [2003] EWCA Civ 97 has the potential to muddy the waters of the law of rescission. It is a fundamental principle that a fraudulent misrepresentation renders a contract voidable at the instance of the representee (Bristol and West Building Society v. Mothew [1998] Ch. 1, 22). Modern authorities suggest that the representee does not have any proprietary interest in property transferred by him pursuant to the contract before rescission (see Bristol and West Building Society v. Mothew [1998] Ch. 1, 22-23; Twinsectra Ltd. v. Yardley [1999] Lloyd's …
Judicial Abuse Of "Process": Examining The Applicability Of Section 2f1.1(B)(4)(B) Of The Federal Sentencing Guidelines To Bankruptcy Fraud, Hideaki Sano
Michigan Law Review
The proliferation of bankruptcy filings over the past decade has coincided with a comparable increase in the incidence of bankruptcy fraud. In response to this growing problem, the United States Department of Justice has placed greater emphasis on federal prosecution of bankruptcy fraud. As a result, federal judges are increasingly applying the Federal Sentencing Guidelines ("Guidelines") to bankruptcy fraud and have begun to implement uniform standards for sentencing defendants convicted of this crime. Congress enacted the Guidelines pursuant to the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. In instituting the Guidelines, Congress sought honesty, reasonable uniformity, and proportionality in sentencing. Congress attempted …
Flight And Fugitive Issues In Bankruptcy Fraud Cases, Angela J. Davis
Flight And Fugitive Issues In Bankruptcy Fraud Cases, Angela J. Davis
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.
The Past And Future Of Kentucky's Fraudulent Transfer And Preference Laws, Douglas C. Michael
The Past And Future Of Kentucky's Fraudulent Transfer And Preference Laws, Douglas C. Michael
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
An important part of the law of creditors' remedies is the ability of creditors to recover property formerly held by the debtor, but transferred to others under circumstances that are considered to be unfair or inequitable. There are two principal ways a creditor can seek to have a debtor's transfer characterized as unfair in order to recover it. First, a transfer to another creditor or a third party can be fraudulent as to one or all of the remaining creditors, or may be deemed to be fraudulent because of the circumstances surrounding the transfer, such as a transfer made by …
Conversion Of Nonexempt Property To Exempt Property On The Eve Of Bankruptcy In Arkansas, J. Thomas Hardin
Conversion Of Nonexempt Property To Exempt Property On The Eve Of Bankruptcy In Arkansas, J. Thomas Hardin
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
Res Judicata And Collateral Estoppel In Bankruptcy Discharge Proceedings
Res Judicata And Collateral Estoppel In Bankruptcy Discharge Proceedings
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Abandoning Bankruptcy Law's "Identity Of Interest" Exception, Michigan Law Review
Abandoning Bankruptcy Law's "Identity Of Interest" Exception, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Section I of this Note discusses the goals and weaknesses of the identity of interest exception; Section II explains the advantages of consolidation and novation; and the final Section suggests a way to separate cases where novation is appropriate from those where consolidation is the preferred remedy.
Federal Procedure-Applicability Of State Decisional Law Interpreting State Statutes Of Limitations Under Section 11 (E) Of The Bankruptcy Act, Charles E. Oldfather S.Ed
Federal Procedure-Applicability Of State Decisional Law Interpreting State Statutes Of Limitations Under Section 11 (E) Of The Bankruptcy Act, Charles E. Oldfather S.Ed
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff is the trustee in bankruptcy of a Virginia corporation whose petition for reorganization under chapter X of the Bankruptcy Act was approved by a Virginia federal district court in 1942. Plaintiff filed this action in a New York federal district court under section 11 (e) of the Bankruptcy Act against defendant, the principal stockholder, and others for breach of fiduciary duty. The alleged breaches of duty occurred in 1927 and 1929. The defendant pleaded the New York statute of limitations and contended that it should be applied as interpreted by New York decisions, which hold that the statute begins …
Bankruptcy-The New Test Of Perfection Under Section 60a-Effect Of Public Law 461, William R. Worth S.Ed.
Bankruptcy-The New Test Of Perfection Under Section 60a-Effect Of Public Law 461, William R. Worth S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
A preference given to a creditor by an insolvent debtor is not a fraud on his other creditors, regardless of the fact that such payment reduces the share that they would be able to obtain upon an orderly liquidation and pro rata distribution of his estate. This simple principle has caused great confusion and trouble in the development of collective procedures for the satisfaction of the claims of creditors. It led through various channels to a very sweeping definition of preferences and provision for their avoidance in the Chandler Act of 1938, and has now produced, by a process of …
Corporations - Rights Of Action By The Representative Of Corporate Creditors - Effect Of Corporate Assent, Edward W. Adams
Corporations - Rights Of Action By The Representative Of Corporate Creditors - Effect Of Corporate Assent, Edward W. Adams
Michigan Law Review
By various acts the directors and officers of a corporation--its agents for the conduct of corporate business--may wrong the corporation or make possible a wrong to the corporation or to the body of corporate stockholders. When the corporation becomes involved in insolvency proceedings, in order to make available to creditors as many assets as possible, the receiver or trustee in bankruptcy determines whether some cause of action will lie to recover damages or property, or whether he may successfully defend to preserve assets. If the corporation itself could have been successful in the litigation, the solution would be easy because …
Equity - Specific Performance Of Contract To Lend Money, Robert C. Lovejoy
Equity - Specific Performance Of Contract To Lend Money, Robert C. Lovejoy
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff, through the Mortgage Service Bureau, which acted as intermediary, negotiated a loan from defendant bank, secured by a mortgage on plaintiff's land. Plaintiff executed and delivered notes and a mortgage, and defendant drew a check for one of the loan installments payable to plaintiff and the bureau, The latter without authority took the check, forged plaintiff's signature, and kept the money. The bureau being out of business and insolvent, plaintiff, with an unfinished house on his hands and without funds to complete it, sought specific performance of the agreement to lend. Held, plaintiff was entitled to specific performance, …