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Stop The Stay: Interrupting Bankruptcy To Conduct Arbitration - Slipped Disc, Inc. V. Cd Warehouse, Inc., Matthew Dameron
Stop The Stay: Interrupting Bankruptcy To Conduct Arbitration - Slipped Disc, Inc. V. Cd Warehouse, Inc., Matthew Dameron
Journal of Dispute Resolution
Since its inception, arbitration has affected other practice areas of the law differently. Some practice areas, such as bankruptcy, have created special exceptions to accommodate the growth of arbitration. Arbitration's effect on the automatic stay in bankruptcy is explored in the following Note.
Crumbs For Oliver Twist: Resolving The Conflict Between Tax And Support Claims In Bankruptcy, Michelle A. Cecil
Crumbs For Oliver Twist: Resolving The Conflict Between Tax And Support Claims In Bankruptcy, Michelle A. Cecil
Faculty Publications
This article is premised on the assumption that the congressional goal of preferring support claims over federal income tax claims is indeed a laudable one, based on three interrelated policy justifications. First, support claimants are unable to spread their risk of loss like the government is able to do by raising tax rates or increasing tax revenue from other sources. As three prominent bankruptcy scholars noted in their recent study of consumer bankruptcy entitled The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt: