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Articles 1 - 15 of 15
Full-Text Articles in Law
Premerger Review And Bankruptcy: The Meaning Of Section 363(B)(2), Robert B. Greenbaum, Alan J. Meese
Premerger Review And Bankruptcy: The Meaning Of Section 363(B)(2), Robert B. Greenbaum, Alan J. Meese
Popular Media
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Creditor Beware: From Default Through Deficiency Judgment, Wanda M. Temm
Creditor Beware: From Default Through Deficiency Judgment, Wanda M. Temm
Faculty Works
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Including Retirement Benefits In A Debtor's Bankruptcy Estate: A Proposal For Harmonizing Erisa And The Bankruptcy Code, Michelle A. Cecil
Including Retirement Benefits In A Debtor's Bankruptcy Estate: A Proposal For Harmonizing Erisa And The Bankruptcy Code, Michelle A. Cecil
Faculty Publications
This Article first examines the conflicting policies of ERISA and the Bankruptcy Code. It then explores how the various courts have attempted to reconcile these policies when faced with the issue of whether a debtor's interest in retirement plan assets should be available for distribution to creditors in bankruptcy. In analyzing the relevant case law, the Article examines cases addressing the exclusion issue (whether pension plans should be excluded from the bankruptcy estate entirely). It also evaluates cases addressing the exemption issue (whether plan assets, once included in the bankruptcy estate, can be exempted out of the estate by the …
United States Government Contract: The Unilateral Act Of Government Contracting, Sawvalak Chulpongstorn
United States Government Contract: The Unilateral Act Of Government Contracting, Sawvalak Chulpongstorn
LLM Theses and Essays
The debarment, suspension, and termination of the Government contract can cause a sudden financial ruin or bankruptcy of the contractor. Consequently, the question of whether the Government’s debarment, suspension, and termination is proper can be of vital importance. This thesis, in consequence, will focus on two major problem areas of the unilateral act of the government in contracting with the contractor. The first problem area is whether the debarment and suspension meet the requirement of due process of law. The second problem area is whether or not the government’s right to terminate the contract is proper or legal in specific …
Venue Choice And Forum Shopping In The Bankruptcy Reorganization Of Large, Publicly Held Companies, Lynn M. Lopucki, William C. Whitford
Venue Choice And Forum Shopping In The Bankruptcy Reorganization Of Large, Publicly Held Companies, Lynn M. Lopucki, William C. Whitford
UF Law Faculty Publications
An empirical study of the bankruptcy reorganization of the forty-three largest, publicly held companies to file and complete bankruptcy proceedings from 1979 to 1988 revealed extensive forum shopping. In virtually all cases examined by the authors, the law afforded a choice of venue. In a substantial number, the petitioning company engaged in "forum shopping" by choosing a venue where the company had little or no physical presence. Most often the venue was New York City. In iheir venue choices, petitioners usually sought to avoid venues that appeared hostile to extensions of exclusivity or that aggressively regulated attorneys' fees. The authors …
Bankruptcy In The Seventh Circuit: 1989-1990, Douglass Boshkoff
Bankruptcy In The Seventh Circuit: 1989-1990, Douglass Boshkoff
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Owners, Auctions, And Absolute Priority In Bankruptcy Reorganizations, Bruce A. Markell
Owners, Auctions, And Absolute Priority In Bankruptcy Reorganizations, Bruce A. Markell
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Deprizio's Honor: Lenders, Insider Guarantors And The Prisoners' Dilemma, Walter Effross
Deprizio's Honor: Lenders, Insider Guarantors And The Prisoners' Dilemma, Walter Effross
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
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The Use Of Ohio's Preference Law In Bankruptcy: An Alternative To Section 547 With A Longer "Reach-Back" Period, Thomas D. Buckley
The Use Of Ohio's Preference Law In Bankruptcy: An Alternative To Section 547 With A Longer "Reach-Back" Period, Thomas D. Buckley
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
Ohio is one of the few states with a preference law of general application among its debtor-creditor statutes. Ohio Revised Code sections 1313.56 and 1313.57 give creditors an avoidance power similar to a bankruptcy trustee's avoidance power under federal bankruptcy law. While this article compares the federal and state preference rules, evaluating the pratical significance of the differences between them, the relative strength of the two laws is less important than the fact that the bankruptcy trustee can choose whichever of the two laws is more effective with respect to any given prebankruptcy transaction. Thus, both laws might be applied …
Insider Guaranties: Their Effect On The Bankruptcy Preference "Reach Back" Period And Possible Use In Getting An "Ordinary Course" Exception Avoidance, Thomas D. Buckley
Insider Guaranties: Their Effect On The Bankruptcy Preference "Reach Back" Period And Possible Use In Getting An "Ordinary Course" Exception Avoidance, Thomas D. Buckley
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
In 1990 the Sixth Circuit decided two bankrupcty preference cases, Ray v. City Bank & Trust Co. (In re C-L Cartage Co.) ("Cartage") and Gosch v. Burns (In re Finn) ("Finn"), that will have important consequences in the administration of bankruptcy proceedings and will also influence the way lenders and borrowers do business with each other in the future, whether or not a bankruptcy ever ensues. This article first describes briefly the mechanics of preference law and the application of it in Cartage and Finn. The article then focuses primarily on the Cartage decision, because the analytic approach taken by …
An Economic Justification For Corporate Reorganizations, Charles Adams
An Economic Justification For Corporate Reorganizations, Charles Adams
Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works
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Editor's Notes, Peter A. Alces
Absolute Priority And New Value, James J. White
Absolute Priority And New Value, James J. White
Articles
This paper is based on a lecture given on December 6, 1990 ast the Second Annual Robert E. Krinock Lecture. The absolute priority rule is a specific application of the broader doctrine that reorganization plans must be "fair and equitable." Both have their origins in the railroad reorganization cases of the early 20th century. The general doctrine is now codified in section 1129(b)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code and the rule is codified in subsection 1129(b)(2)(B)(ii) which provides that the debtor must pay a nonconsenting class of unsecured creditors in full or "the holder of any claim or interest that is …
Bondholder Coercion: The Problem Of Constrained Choice In Debt Tender Offers And Recapitalizations, John C. Coffee Jr., William A. Klein
Bondholder Coercion: The Problem Of Constrained Choice In Debt Tender Offers And Recapitalizations, John C. Coffee Jr., William A. Klein
Faculty Scholarship
The past decade saw the flourishing of risky, high-yield corporate debt, often called "junk" bonds. Too many companies took on too much debt, and the chickens are now coming home to roost as these bonds have begun to default with increasing frequency.The magnitude of the problem is potentially enormous; by one estimate, $318 billion of debt has either defaulted already or trades at yields indicating the market's skepticism that it will be repaid on maturity.
Facing the prospect of default, corporate issuers are seeking to restructure or recapitalize their financial structures at a correspondingly increased pace. The market force driving …
A Debtor’S Right To Avoid Liens Against Exempt Property Under Section 522 Of The Bankruptcy Code: Meaningless Or Meaningful?, Veryl Victoria Miles
A Debtor’S Right To Avoid Liens Against Exempt Property Under Section 522 Of The Bankruptcy Code: Meaningless Or Meaningful?, Veryl Victoria Miles
Scholarly Articles
This article reviews the conflict as it has taken form in the courts of appeal of several circuits. The first section of the article briefly discusses the legislative history of section 522, and the purpose of Congress in providing the debtor with both exemptions and lien avoidance powers under the Code. It next reviews the decisions of courts of appeal that have interpreted the extent of the "opt~out" powers granted to the states under section 522(b). The third and final section analyzes the two views on the question, and concludes that the better interpretation is that the states are not …