In the recent decision of Taggart v. Lorenzen, the Supreme Court held that a court may hold a creditor in civil contempt for violating a discharge order if there is no fair ground of doubt as to ...

When a debtor LLC receives a discharge order from a bankruptcy court, a creditor is prevented from enforcing any preexisting debts against the discharged LLC as a personal liability. This is known as ...

Yesterday’s decision in Taggart v. Lorenzen will not go down as one of the major decisions of the term, but it should provide some useful guidance in an area as to which the Supreme Court has not ...

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A federal appeals court said on Tuesday an alleged violation of a bankruptcy discharge order is not an arbitrable dispute, in a defeat for GE Capital Retail Bank and Citigroup Inc. The 2nd U.S.

A bankruptcy court held that the IRS’s repeated collection notices and delays in abating a couple’s tax debts that had been discharged in bankruptcy willfully violated the discharge, entitling the ...