This is one of those articles that forces practitioners to stop, re-read the data, and ask whether what we think is happening in bankruptcy court is actually happening.
Professor Jason Iuliano examines more than 1,300 student loan adversary proceedings over a sixteen-year period and finds a striking—and recent—shift: women now outperform men in obtaining student loan discharges, particularly in the post-2022 DOJ/Department of Education guidance era.
SummaryIn Allianz v. BLV Ascend, the North Carolina Business Court (Chief Judge Michael Robinson) delivers a clean, practical ruling on a somewhat over-lawyered problem: whether a plaintiff needs court permission to dismiss a guaranty claim—and whether doing so might jeopardize an already-in-place receivership.
In Smith Debnam Narron Drake Saintsing & Myers, LLP v. Muntjan, the North Carolina Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeals and held that a series of informal emails satisfied the statute of frauds for a guaranty of another’s debt.
In Cournoyer v. Schamens (Bankr. M.D.N.C. Apr. 3, 2026), the Bankruptcy Court delivered a blunt reminder that discovery is not optional—even for pro se debtors. Faced with more than 400 days of noncompliance, repeated violations of court orders, and what it characterized as a pattern of bad faith and dilatory conduct, the court struck the debtor’s answer and entered default judgment denying discharge under 11 U.S.C. § 727(a)(2), (3), and (4).
Parrott v. Yeh is another chapter in the ongoing effort to unwind transactions tied to the collapse of entities associated with Greg Lindberg—this time through the lens of a Chapter 7 Trustee exercising core avoidance powers under the Bankruptcy Code.
