Chapter 7 petition stands in spite of undisclosed asset
A recent 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling resolves a split among lower court judges about how debtors can use the automatic dismissal provision of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer...
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Prosecutors can use the Federal Debt Collection Procedure Act — including its garnishment procedure — to enforce an order of restitution to a private-party victim of a crime, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court...
View ArticleBenefit denial not warranted by video
A plan administrator could not terminate an employee’s long-term disability benefits despite covert surveillance video showing the employee driving, walking, jogging, bending over, flying a kite and...
View ArticleRecovering addict can get LTD benefits
An insurance company must pay long-term disability benefits to a drug-addicted doctor for periods during which she was drug-free but at risk for a relapse, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has...
View ArticleJudge Stearns ordered off Bulger case
In what can only be described as a legal stunner, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has made the highly unusual decision to order U.S. District Court Richard G. Stearns off the James “Whitey”...
View ArticleFee reduction reversed in golf case
The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a federal judge’s decision to award only $30,000 in counsel fees to Elaine Joyce, who prevailed in a suit over her exclusion from a “men’s” golf...
View ArticleChapter 7 petition stands in spite of undisclosed asset
A recent 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling resolves a split among lower court judges about how debtors can use the automatic dismissal provision of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer...
View ArticleFDCPA can be used to enforce restitution orders
Prosecutors can use the Federal Debt Collection Procedure Act — including its garnishment procedure — to enforce an order of restitution to a private-party victim of a crime, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court...
View ArticleBenefit denial not warranted by video
A plan administrator could not terminate an employee’s long-term disability benefits despite covert surveillance video showing the employee driving, walking, jogging, bending over, flying a kite and...
View ArticleRecovering addict can get LTD benefits
An insurance company must pay long-term disability benefits to a drug-addicted doctor for periods during which she was drug-free but at risk for a relapse, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has...
View ArticleJudge Stearns ordered off Bulger case
In what can only be described as a legal stunner, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has made the highly unusual decision to order U.S. District Court Richard G. Stearns off the James “Whitey”...
View ArticleFee reduction reversed in golf case
The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a federal judge’s decision to award only $30,000 in counsel fees to Elaine Joyce, who prevailed in a suit over her exclusion from a “men’s” golf...
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