Cramdown Articles

Reprinted with permission of Judge Karen S. Jennemann Over 28 years ago, on November 3, 1993, Eleventh Circuit Judge Gerald Tjoflat swore me in as the first woman bankruptcy judge in Florida. Thirteen years later, in 2006, Laurel Isicoff joined me as a female colleague in the Southern District of Florida. On February 2, 2022,...Read More

by: Christie Arkovich, [email protected] Sudent loan debt continues to remain a problem for many. The Covid forbearance is scheduled to end May 1, 2022 and federal student loan payments are expected to re-start. Some new developments over the past few weeks and months have included: Navient/Attorney General settlement: 39 Attorneys General entered into a settlement...Read More

By Bridget Dennis, Shutts & Bowen LLP In the case of In re Stanford, the Chapter 11 debtors appealed the bankruptcy court’s decision to approve a sale of the debtors’ real estate under Section 363(b), which ultimately occurred while the appeal was pending. 17 F.4th 116, 119 (11th Cir. 2021) The Eleventh Circuit posed the...Read More

By Daniel Etlinger, Jennis Morse Etlinger Recently the Tampa Bay Bankruptcy Bar Association’s (TBBBA) Board has endeavored to digitize every historic issue of The Cramdown, all the way back to its roots as The Cram-Down! The Cramdown’s contributions – from local news to national trends to thought-provoking position pieces –should be celebrated. Moving forward, the...Read More

By Kristina Feher, Esq. Feher Law, P.L.L.C. On Nov. 15, 2021, the Eleventh Circuit held that the failure to give notice of non-debtor, third-party releases, as required by Bankruptcy Rule 2002(c)(3), is not fatal when the same information was contained in the plan and disclosure statement sent to the creditor who sought to sue third...Read More