As first noted here , I’ve been posting nearly daily on Twitter a bankruptcy case highlight or development that I don’t want to clutter this blog with.

And so, it appears, 19 years of hell for the remaining surviving heirs of J.

As noted in this post , last week I started posting on Twitter.

Back in the good old days when bashing BAPCPA

Jan Hamilton has filed his Reply Brief in Hamilton v. Lanning. You can access it here.

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Trustee's Reply Brief in Lanning

Whatever you may think about the fact that Refco’s outside corporate counsel was convicted by a jury on 5 criminal counts, one has to wonder how the system got so turned upside down on the civil side that while the law firm’s lead lawyer is torched in criminal court, his firm is summarilyi dismissed from a civil case for precisely the same conduct on a simple motion to dismiss (based on a theory that the Refco trustee lacked standing to bring suit to recover for damages arising from a fraudulent scheme devised and carried out by Refco’s own senior management ).

As noted in this post last June , it is fair to assume that the U.S.

The best thing about tight deadlines is the moment they finally come to an end.

[ 12/14/09 Update:

GM objection due tomorrow, so no time to pontificate on today’s “narrow” holding of the United States Supreme Court in Travelers Indem. Co. v. Bailey , No

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Supreme Court Holds in Travelers v. Bailey That a Bankruptcy Court’s Final Order Is Enforceable Even If the Court Lacked Jurisdiction to Enter the…