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In In re Mihranian, 2019 WL 4252115 (9th Cir. 2019), the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held, as a matter of first impression, that a party moving for substantive consolidation of the debtor's ...

Two recent opinions concerning the law of substantive consolidation should be of interest to business owners and commercial real estate market participants. The doctrine of substantive consolidation ...

The most powerful proof you can provide at trial is visual. Using great graphics and imagery is a key to good advocacy. Using them as early as possible in the case is even better. Because we learn ...

Although the affinities between the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms and the Seventh Amendment right to civil jury trial seem strong, there are crucial differences. The first concerns ...

Taxpayers sometimes find themselves opening an envelope bearing the return address of the Department of the Treasury. Inside may be an IRS notice assessing additional tax, proposing changes to prior ...

Substantive rights have a core that can be meaningfully interpreted and protected; they can exist independently of a particular government or a particular legal system. Procedural rights lack such an ...