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Full-Text Articles in Bankruptcy Law
Of Hotel Revenues, Rents, And Formalism In The Bankruptcy Courts: Implications For Reforming Commercial Real Estate Finance, R. Wilson Freyermuth
Of Hotel Revenues, Rents, And Formalism In The Bankruptcy Courts: Implications For Reforming Commercial Real Estate Finance, R. Wilson Freyermuth
Faculty Publications
This article is intended to continue the dialogue begun by the proposed Restatement and has two distinct goals in this effort. Parts I through III argue that the position of the Restatement drafters is both legally and functionally sound and that bankruptcy courts should embrace and apply the proposed Restatement in administering distressed real estate developments. Part I reviews the reasoning articulated in the hotel bankruptcy cases, demonstrating how courts have applied the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code and state law in a formalistic manner to extinguish the hotel mortgagee's lien upon postpetition room revenues. Part II rejects the analysis …
Determining Interest And Discount Rates Applicable To Secured Claims In The Specter Of Bankruptcy Law, Aneel M. Pandey
Determining Interest And Discount Rates Applicable To Secured Claims In The Specter Of Bankruptcy Law, Aneel M. Pandey
San Diego Law Review
This Article formulates a basic framework to determine interest and discount rates applicable to secured claims in bankruptcy. It reviews the function of the interest rate from a macroeconomic perspective. The time value of money concept is explained, showing that the later a cash flow comes in time, the less it is worth. The treatment that debtors and creditors receive during the gap period (the time between the filing of the bankruptcy petition and the confirmation of the plan) is evaluated by examining how courts have struggled with the Bankruptcy Code to award post-petition interest. The author concludes by developing …
Organizational Form, Misappropriation Risk, And The Substantive Consolidation Of Corporate Groups, Christopher W. Frost
Organizational Form, Misappropriation Risk, And The Substantive Consolidation Of Corporate Groups, Christopher W. Frost
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
The financial collapse of a corporation raises significant questions regarding its shareholders and creditors' ex ante allocation of the risk that such a collapse might occur. In bankruptcy, most of these risk allocation issues relate to the priority of particular creditors' claims against the assets of the failed business. But determining priority first requires some reasoned means of identifying the assets against which creditors may assert their claims. In many cases, this question is simply one of locating and distributing assets. However, when bankrupt firms have conducted their operations through a complex web of subsidiary corporations, each holding distinct assets …
In Re Grabill Corporation: Another No For Jury Trials In The Bankruptcy Courts, William J. Delany
In Re Grabill Corporation: Another No For Jury Trials In The Bankruptcy Courts, William J. Delany
Villanova Law Review
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Limitations On Use Of The California Homestead Exemption In Bankruptcy Cases: The Case For Following In Re Pladson, Leslie Burton, Jeffrey C. Wurms
Limitations On Use Of The California Homestead Exemption In Bankruptcy Cases: The Case For Following In Re Pladson, Leslie Burton, Jeffrey C. Wurms
Publications
Two decisions, a 1991 California Court of Appeal decision, Spencer v. Lowery, and a 1993 United States District Court for the Northern District of California decision, In re Pladson, severely restricted the homestead exemption available in bankruptcy cases filed in California. Some bankruptcy courts have refused to follow the Spencer and Pladson cases and the California Legislature has passed new legislation on the use of the homestead exemption in bankruptcy. This article will explore the background and rationale of the decisions and the legislative scheme, and offer support for limiting the Homestead exemption in bankruptcy cases.
Shareholder Control Rights In Bankruptcy: Disassembling The Withering Mirage Of Corporate Democracy, Thomas G. Kelch
Shareholder Control Rights In Bankruptcy: Disassembling The Withering Mirage Of Corporate Democracy, Thomas G. Kelch
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Attack On Chapter 11, Douglass G. Boshkoff
The Attack On Chapter 11, Douglass G. Boshkoff
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Wysko Investment Company V. Great American Bank: A New Attack On The Usefulness Of Letters Of Credit, Robert Jay Gavigan
Wysko Investment Company V. Great American Bank: A New Attack On The Usefulness Of Letters Of Credit, Robert Jay Gavigan
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
The letter of credit has long been accepted as a valuable instrument of assured payment in international business. In Wysko Investment v. Great American Bank, however, an Arizona district court jeopardized the usefulness of the letter of credit transaction by enjoining payment to the beneficiary after the issuing party became insolvent.' This note addresses the issue of whether a bankruptcy court has the power to enjoin payment of a letter of credit issued by the debtor's principal, pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 105(a), when the court finds the injunction necessary for the debtor's reorganization. Further, this note examines whether such …
Revising Article 9 To Reduce Wasteful Litigation, James J. White
Revising Article 9 To Reduce Wasteful Litigation, James J. White
Articles
For reasons that are unclear to me, the committees reviewing the articles of the Uniform Commercial Code and drafting revisions are congenitally conservative. Perhaps these committees take their charge too seriously, namely, to revise, not to revolutionize. Perhaps their intimate knowledge of the subject matter exaggerates the importance of each section and consequently magnifies the apparent size of every change. In any case, my own experience with two such committees tells me that the members quickly become focused on revisions and amendments that any outsider would describe as modest. To the extent that the revision of any of the articles …
Setoff And Bankruptcy, Lawrence Kalevitch
Setoff And Bankruptcy, Lawrence Kalevitch
Cleveland State Law Review
The code treats liens and setoffs as secured claims. A lienor under §506 receives a secured claim in the face amount of the debt secured only if the collateral has at least that value. Section 506(a) requires collateral valuation to determine the amount of the secured claim. Setoff in the face amount of a creditor's claim likewise requires valuation. Part II discusses §506(a) and §553 and how they may limit, in appropriate cases, the setoff right to less than the face amount of a creditor's claim. Part II shows that this reading of the Bankruptcy Code is not only consistent …