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In re Henry S. Miller Commer. LLC

Ruling
Attorneys' fees reduced as not warranted by non-complex case.
Procedural posture

Before the court was the First and Final Application for Final Allowance and Payment of Fees and Expenses as Counsel for the Chapter 11 Debtor. The fee application sought a total of $184,278 for the approximately six-month period the applicant served as bankruptcy counsel for the debtor-in-possession.

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Commercial opinion summary, case decided on November 08, 2010 , LexisNexis #1210-038

In re Tridimension Energy LP

Ruling
Break up fee included in asset purchase agreement was actual and necessary cost of preserving estate.
Procedural posture

In this jointly administered bankruptcy case, debtors moved for approval of procedures for solicitation of offers, the form and manner of notice, procedures for determining cure amounts, bid protections and procedures, and a break-up fee in connection with a transaction contemplated by an asset purchase agreement.

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Commercial opinion summary, case decided on October 28, 2010 , LexisNexis #0111-120

In re Gonzales

Ruling
Debtor's emergency motion for sale of residential real property denied absent dire circumstances.
Procedural posture

Chapter 7 debtor brought an emergency motion for an order authorizing the sale of her residential real property, pursuant to 11 U.S.C.S. § 363.

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Consumer opinion summary, case decided on October 27, 2010 , LexisNexis #1210-006

In re Tridimension Energy LP

Ruling
Debtor given emergency authorization to use cash collateral.
Procedural posture

Chapter 11 debtors filed an emergency motion for an order authorizing the debtors to continue to use cash collateral, authorizing the debtors to obtain additional post-petition financing, and granting related relief.

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Commercial opinion summary, case decided on October 18, 2010 , LexisNexis #0111-112

In re Grisham

Ruling
Reaffirmation agreement disapproved due to failure to rebut presumption of undue hardship.
Procedural posture

A bankruptcy debtor proposed a reaffirmation agreement in which the debtor would reaffirm a debt to a creditor secured by the debtor's vehicle. Since the agreement raised a presumption of undue hardship based on the debtor's expenses in excess of income, the bankruptcy court conducted a hearing concerning approval of the agreement.

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Consumer opinion summary, case decided on September 07, 2010 , LexisNexis #1010-019

In re Lincolnshire Campus LLC

Ruling
Trustee granted a perfected continuing replacement lien and security interest and a super- priority administrative expense claim as adequate protection for debtor's use of cash collateral.
Procedural posture

Pursuant to an agreement between the debtor-in-possession and the indenture trustee for its bonds, the court considered a proposed order regarding the use of cash collateral and adequate protection.

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Commercial opinion summary, case decided on July 28, 2010 , LexisNexis #0111-121

In re Staxxring Inc.

Ruling
Involuntary case dismissed where only two petitioning creditors had claims not subject to bona fide dispute.
Procedural posture

The court held a hearing on the Motion to Dismiss Involuntary Petition filed by Alleged Debtor. On the other side of the Motion were the Petitioning Creditors.

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Commercial opinion summary, case decided on May 28, 2010 , LexisNexis #0910-002

Reed v. Cooper (In re Cooper)

Ruling
Discharge revoked due to debtor's failure to turn over proceeds of sale of real property.
Procedural posture

Chapter 7 trustee and a creditor filed an adversary proceeding seeking the revocation of the debtor's discharge granted in 1999, and seeking turnover of the proceeds of sales of real property of the estate, as well as damages, as a result of the debtor's alleged postdischarge fraud, pursuant to 11 U.S.C.S. § 727(d)(2) and (3).

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Consumer opinion summary, case decided on March 10, 2010 , LexisNexis #0510-105

In re Erickson Ret. Cmtys. LLC

Ruling
Motion for appointement of examiner denied for lack of standing.
Procedural posture

Debtors, various LLCs and other entities, filed petitions under chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, and the court ordered joint administration of the debtors' bankruptcy estates. Creditors that held subordinated debt against several of the debtors, filed a motion for an order appointing an examiner pursuant to 11 U.S.C.S. § 1104. The motion was opposed, inter alia, by a bank that was the agent for senior secured lenders.

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Commercial opinion summary, case decided on March 05, 2010 , LexisNexis #0510-098

Yaquinto v. Arrow Fin. Servs. (In re Brook Mays Music Co.)

Ruling
Payments to financial services company within 90 days of petition date were avoidable except to the extent that new value was provided.
Procedural posture

Plaintiff Chapter 7 trustee filed an adversary proceeding against defendant financial services company, claiming that three payments a music company made to the financial services company before the music company declared bankruptcy were avoidable as preferential transfers under 11 U.S.C.S. § 547(b) or as fraudulent transfers under 11 U.S.C.S. § 548(a)(1). The financial services company filed a motion for summary judgment.

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Commercial opinion summary, case decided on October 15, 2009 , LexisNexis #1209-126