Late-Allowed Vehicle Claims and the Importance of Finality By Linda B. Gore Editor’s Note: Unlike past articles in this column, the authors mostly agree on the viewpoint, but this article outlines the basis for those trustees/courts that ta…

Legislative Highlights Senate Leaders Take Different Legislative Paths to Curb ‘Judge-Shopping’ Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on April 10 each introduced legislation that wo…

ABI’s Resident Scholar Program to Restart in the Fall By Carolyn M. Kanon and Hon. Hannah L. Blumenstiel ABI will be restarting its Robert M. Zinman Scholar-in-Residence program starting with the fall 2024 semester. Funded by ABI’s Anthony …

President’s Column I write this column as I reflect on my first few weeks as ABI President. I still feel overwhelmed by the honor of leading this incredible organization, but I also feel sheepish about the amount of coverage it has garnered…

Benchnotes By Aaron M. Kaufman, Bradley D. Pack and Christina Sanfelippo Preference Claims Under § 547 Are Estate Property and May Be Sold Joining the Eighth and Ninth Circuits, 1 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that cl…

Questions and Answers with USTP Director Tara Twomey By Tara Twomey T ara Twomey became director of the Executive Office for U.S. Trustees on Feb. 27, 2023. In this article, she answers some questions for the ABI Journal about her career in…

President’s Column After spending the past year shadowing our outgoing ABI President, Soneet R. Kapila of KapilaMukamal, LLP (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), I look forward to following in his footsteps as ABI President. His work with the Subchapte…

Assessing In re Topp’s Impact on Interest Rates for Secured Creditors By Michael Miller The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit decided Farm Credit Servs. of Am. FLCA v. Topp (In re Topp) on Aug. 3, 2023. 1 The central issue was th…

Standing Trustees Should Be Paid in Unconfirmed Cases By Grant Rosinko Recent decisions in several circuits have denied compensation to standing trustees when a chapter 13 case is dismissed prior to plan confirmation. There is now a split o…

Legislative Highlights U.S. Judicial Conference Aims to Promote Random Case Assignment The Judicial Conference of the United States on March 12 proposed strengthening the policy governing random case assignment, limiting the ability of liti…