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{ Monthly Archives } February 2009

Judicial Modification Key To Helping Homeowners

  Last week President Obama announced an ambitious and expensive plan to stabilize home prices and help homeowners in trouble with their home loans avoid foreclosure.

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NACBA Supports President Obama’s Plans On Bankruptcy

The National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys (NACBA) issued a statement Feb. 19 supporting President Obama’s plans to restructure home mortgages, and take other steps, to deal with the growing number of consumer bankruptcies

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President Obama To Make Filing For Bankruptcy Easier

In his address Feb. 18 regarding his plans to mitigate the current mortgage crisis, President Obama announced that his administration will reform bankruptcy rules to make it easier for individuals to seek such relief. While his press conference in Mesa, Ariz

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Federal Judge Rules Debt Nondischargeable

PITSBURGH — A Pennsylvania federal judge on Feb. 9 affirmed a bankruptcy court’s ruling that certain unsecured debt was nondischargeable and held that a creditor failed to carry his burden of proof of allegations that the debtor committed embezzlement in an underlying court action ( Steven D. Ginsburg, et al.

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Oklahoma Federal Judge Says Malpractice Case May Proceed

TULSA, Okla. — An Oklahoma federal judge on Feb. 6 ruled that the United States had been properly put on notice that a trustee in an underlying bankruptcy case would be pursuing a medical malpractice case against a federal agency and held that the trustee could pursue the claim

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7th Circuit Says Abuse Not Shown

CHICAGO — A panel of the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb

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Automatic Stay Not Violated

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee federal judge on Feb

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Old Gray Lady: As Mergers Dry Up, Bankruptcy Practice Intensifies

On January 24, bankruptcy was on the minds of the editors of the New York Times with the venerable “Old Gray Lady” posting 2 bankruptcy articles:   In

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