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Since the Supreme Court dropped its constitutional bombshell on the bankruptcy system last week in Stern v. Marshall , 2011 U.S. LEXIS 4791 (2011) (aka Anna Nicole Smith II), [ enhanced version available to lexis.comsubscribers / unenhanced version available...

PHILADELPHIA - Does the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. engage in judicial activism? Yes, according to a reporter who has covered the high court for more than 50 years. But, he says, that's not a negative quality, or unusual...

In my last post , I posited whether the Court's decision in Stern v. Marshall would be a bombshell or a dud. It certainly was no dud. And after reading the 5-4 opinion, I'd say that it's a bombshell in several respects, both from a bankruptcy...

In this Emerging Issues Analysis, Professor Kenneth N. Klee examines the Supreme Court's decision in Stern v. Marshall , 564 U.S. _____, 131 S. Ct. _____, 2011 U.S. LEXIS 4791 (2011), in which the Court struck down as unconstitutional 28 U.S.C. §...

This is a paper that I did for the Austin Bar Association summarizing the Texas cases applying Stern v. Marshall to date. Please note that where the holding is indented, I am directly quoting the opinion. I also used the following key for highlighting...

In my last post , I posited whether the Court's decision in Stern v. Marshall would be a bombshell or a dud. It certainly was no dud. And after reading the 5-4 opinion, I'd say that it's a bombshell in several respects, both from a bankruptcy...

This Emerging Issues Analysis examines whether, post-Stern v. Marshall, parties can consent to a bankruptcy court's entry of final judgment in a related matter. The circuits are split on the issue, with the Sixth Circuit denying the bankruptcy...

A failed bid to reap a Beanie Baby bonanza, which resulted in a fifteen year legal odyssey for a chapter 13 debtor and his attorneys, will live on a while longer as a result of the Fifth Circuit’s recent interpretation of Stern v. Marshall . Unlike...

The case of a creditor who did not want to acknowledge that its debt had really and truly been paid received little sympathy from the Fifth Circuit which rejected a panoply of defenses and affirmed the Bankruptcy Court ruling that "The Senior...

On this edition, Henry Sommer, co-editor in chief of Collier on Bankruptcy and the LexisNexis Matthew Bender Collier line of bankruptcy publications and Kenneth Klee, Professor at UCLA School of Law, discuss the U.S. Supreme Court's June 23, 2011...

Following last year's Stern v. Marshall bombshell, cases are slowly trickling up to the Court of Appeals level. After I wrote about a recent Fifth Circuit opinion which held that the jurisdiction of U.S. Magistrate Judges was not invalidated, a...

After fifteen years of litigation, two trips to the Supreme Court and the deaths of both of the original antagonists, the Supreme Court decided Stern v. Marshall , 2011 U.S. LEXIS 4791 (Jun. 23, 2011). While Vickie Lynn Marshall, better known as Anna...

Note: Case and statute links below are accessible by lexis.com subscribers Prof. Kenneth N. Klee examines the developing case law in the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling in Stern v. Marshall, in which the Court held that 28 U.S.C. § 157...

The Supreme Court has set the stage to flesh out the practical impact of Stern v. Marshall [ an enhanced version of this opinion is available to lexis.com subscribers ]. On June 24, 2013, the Court granted the petition for cert filed by the defendant...

In connection with the SIPA proceeding of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, LLC, the district court issued its ruling on whether the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Stern v. Marshall , 131 S. Ct. 2594, 180 L. Ed. 2d 475 (2011), prohibits the...