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Granfinanciera, S.A. v. Nordberg, 492 U.S. 33 (1989), is a 1989 United States Supreme Court case concerning the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution.In a majority opinion by William J. Brennan, Jr., the Court held that the Seventh Amendment guaranteed individuals the right to a jury trial if they are sued by a bankruptcy trustee seeking the recovery of an allegedly fraudulent ...
Bankruptcy prevents a person's creditors from obtaining a judgment against them. With a judgment a creditor can attempt to garnish wages or seize certain types of property. . However, if a debtor has no wages (because they are unemployed or retired) and has no property, they are "judgment proof", meaning a judgment would have no impact on their financial situat
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were several short-lived federal bankruptcy laws before the Act of 1898: the Bankruptcy Act of 1800, [3] which was repealed in 1803; the Act of 1841, [4] which was repealed in 1843; and the Act of 1867, [5] which was amended in 1874 [6] and ...
Chicago-based hardware retailer True Value, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week, could lay off nearly 900 employees in Illinois alone if the company isn’t sold during bankruptcy ...
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (in case citations, N.D. Ill.) is the federal trial court with jurisdiction over the northern counties of Illinois. It is one of the busiest federal trial courts in the United States, with famous cases including those of Al Capone and the Chicago Eight. [1]
A U.S. bankruptcy court trustee is planning to shut down conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars media platform and liquidate its assets to help pay the $1.5 billion in lawsuit judgments Jones ...
United States bankruptcy courts are courts created under Article I of the United States Constitution. [1] The current system of bankruptcy courts was created by the United States Congress in 1978, effective April 1, 1984. [2] United States bankruptcy courts function as units of the district courts and have subject-matter jurisdiction over ...
Bankruptcy is designed to be a last resort when you have exhausted all other options. It stays on your credit report for years, making it difficult to reestablish your creditworthiness and access ...