Bankruptcy Law

This Article focuses on bankruptcy opinions issued by the Supreme Court of the United States and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Topics addressed include: (1) Trustee’s avoidance powers under § 544(b) and waiver of sovereign immunity for state law claims; (2) priority of a claim and determination of whether the federal tax claim sounded in tort or contract; (3) subchapter V eligibility plan confirmation, stay relief, abstention, and bankruptcy court jurisdiction; (4) annulment of the automatic stay; (5) applicability of § 523(a) to corporate debtors in the context of a subchapter V bankruptcy case; (6) willful and malicious injury under § 523(a)(6); (7) equitable tolling of the deadline to file a complaint under Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 4007(c); (8) interpretation of Florida law related to ownership rights in a bank account; and (9) discretion of a bankruptcy court to exclude an expert opinion valuing fraudulent transfer.