Dossier
Chapter 13
Coverage of Chapter 13 in the Nexus archive.
- Supreme Court says bankruptcy paperwork error shouldn’t knock out debtor’s injury suit
The Supreme Court revived a personal injury lawsuit against Buddy Ayers Construction, ruling that a lower court erred in dismissing the case due to omissions in the plaintiff’s bankruptcy filings. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson emphasized that judicial estoppel requires a case-by-case analysis rather than a rigid presumption of bad faith.