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This is a list of Supreme Court of the United States cases in the area of bankruptcy. This list is a list solely of United States Supreme Court decisions about applying law related to bankruptcy. Not all Supreme Court decisions are ultimately influential and, as in other fields, not all important decisions are made at the Supreme Court level.
United States v. Miller: 23-824: Whether a bankruptcy trustee may avoid a debtor’s tax payment to the United States under when no actual creditor could have obtained relief under the applicable state fraudulent-transfer law outside of bankruptcy. June 24, 2024: December 2, 2024 United States v. Skrmetti: 23-477
PACER (acronym for Public Access to Court Electronic Records) is an electronic public access service for United States federal court documents. It allows authorized users to obtain case and docket information from the United States district courts , United States courts of appeals , and United States bankruptcy courts .
The bankruptcy followed his divorce and a court order requiring him to pay his ex-wife $600,000 of alimony. [65] [63] He filed for bankruptcy for his company Right-On Production at the same time. [64] Vince McMahon: American wrestling promoter Filed in a U.S. bankruptcy court. [66] 1976 [66] [67] They owed a total of $955,805 to 26 distinct ...
Originally, bankruptcy in the United States, as nearly all matters directly concerning individual citizens, was a subject of state law. However, there were several short-lived federal bankruptcy laws before the Act of 1898: the Bankruptcy Act of 1800, [3] which was repealed in 1803; the Act of 1841, [4] which was repealed in 1843; and the Act of 1867, [5] which was amended in 1874 [6] and ...
CM/ECF (Case Management/Electronic Case Files) is the case management and electronic court filing system for most of the United States federal courts. PACER , an acronym for Public Access to Court Electronic Records , is an interface to the same system for public use.
United States bankruptcy courts function as units of the district courts and have subject-matter jurisdiction over bankruptcy cases. The federal district courts have original and exclusive jurisdiction over all cases arising under the bankruptcy code, (see 28 U.S.C. § 1334(a) ), and bankruptcy cases cannot be filed in state court .
The Bankruptcy Act of 1898 (Act of July 1, 1898, ch. 541, 30 Stat. 544) was the first permanent bankruptcy law and remained in effect until the passage of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95–598, 92 Stat. 2549, November 6, 1978). The 1898 Act created "courts of bankruptcy" defined as the district courts of the United States.