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U.S. Supreme Court Rules that Bankruptcy Code Provides Only Limited Abrogation of Sovereign Immunity to Avoidance Actions

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Bankruptcy trustees and chapter 11 debtors-in-possession ("DIPs") frequently seek to avoid fraudulent transfers and obligations under section 544(b) of the Bankruptcy Code and state fraudulent transfer or other applicable...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

United States v. Miller Oral Argument: Supreme Court Justices Seem Divided on Issues of Allowing a Trustee to Sue the IRS for...

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This author previously wrote an article published in Bloomberg Law regarding the Supreme Court’s decision to take up an appeal of a decision on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in United States v. Miller. In Miller, the...more

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A Growing Circuit Split: Does the IRS Have Sovereign Immunity from Fraudulent Transfer Claims under 11 U.S.C. § 544(b)(1)?

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In a March 8, 2022 decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued an opinion holding, in part, that the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) does not have sovereign immunity for claims arising...more

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The Trustee Is Suing Me For A Transfer I Received How Many Years Ago?

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Any creditor that has experienced more than a few customers or borrowers filing for bankruptcy is aware that there is a risk of being sued by a trustee to avoid transfers that the creditor received prior to the bankruptcy...more

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Revoking S Corp. Status: A Fraudulent Conveyance?

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Worlds Collide? I like to tell my partners that there are Codes (upper case “C”), and there are codes (lower case “c”). The former include the Ten Commandments, the Code of Hammurabi, the Code of Justinian, and the...more

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The Bitcoin Identity Crisis: Currency or Property?

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The confusion over Bitcoin grows in the latest lawsuit brought in a California bankruptcy court by Trustee Mark Kasolas against Marc Lowe, a former employee of HashFast Technologies LLC. The trustee alleges, among other...more

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