On March 16, 2010, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (which covers Detroit, Bay City, and Flint) announced on its website that the next meeting of the Debtor/Creditors’ Rights Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar will include an educational program on Bankruptcy Pleading Standards after the U.S. Supreme Court rulings in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly and Ashcroft v.

On March 15, 2010, Judge Cox ordered Chicago Auto Source, Inc. to pay a sanction in the amount of $5,000.00 plus attorney’s fees of $850.00 for its automatic stay violation as related to a 2000 BMW 528i. When Chapter 13 bankruptcy case 10-06172 was filed, attorney John Ellmann of David M. Siegel & Associates, attempted to advise the auto financier of the bankruptcy filing. When denied proper communication channels, Ellmann filed his Motion for Sanctions. This is the second such case involving sanction motions that David M. Siegel & Associates has pending.

Yesterday, I was talking with former Credit Slips guest blogger Pat McCoy about perhaps reprising that role for us. McCoy is a law professor at the University of Connecticut and, along with her co-author Kathleen Engel, was writing about Wall...