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thanks for tuning in and sharing!
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Still acclimating to this site...
UNC-Chapel Hill Professor studying debt/commercial law/bankruptcy & connections to everything else.
Unjust Debts comes out June 11 2024: www.mbjacoby.org/unjustdebts
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Melissa B. Jacoby
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thanks for tuning in and sharing!
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Still time to join Senator Warren and me tomorrow at this virtual event 3pm ET. Sign up here: www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2024-...
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New Yorkers, Zephyr Teachout and I will no doubt end up discussing today's Purdue Pharma decision at tonight's Unjust Debts book event. Please join the discussion!
www.greenlightbookstore.com/event/meliss...
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Want to learn and talk about unexpected sources of inequality and what to do? Join Senator Elizabeth Warren and me on July 1 for a virtual event & conversation. I'm told registrants can propose topics and questions to Senator Warren.
Register here: www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2024-...
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i learned something new today!
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My lifelong guilt about keeping books past their due dates prevents me from getting into this particular pickle (also I read e-books on my phone, although perhaps there would be many benefits to keeping the phone in airplane mode...)
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whoever said this project wasn't interesting must have a very wild life indeed...
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When I say the American bankruptcy system intersects with everything, it is no joke.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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My new book Unjust Debts, made this Financial Times best books list!!!
Still don't know too many people here on Bluesky and yet wanted to share so maybe I will be connected with more!
www.ft.com/content/057e...
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Jenny Offill predicted the future.
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Very much appreciate Prof. Lahav's interest in this work given her expertise!
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thank you!
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oh wow.
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The bankruptcy system reflects many good intentions. But the costs deserve a closer look. My essay considers companies using chapter 11 in response to widespread allegations of wrongdoing.
Want to know more than these 1500 words? Unjust Debts comes out next week.
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/04/o...
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Melissa B. Jacoby
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The bankruptcy system reflects many good intentions. But the costs deserve a closer look. My essay considers companies using chapter 11 in response to widespread allegations of wrongdoing.
Want to know more than these 1500 words? Unjust Debts comes out next week.
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/04/o...
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Melissa B. Jacoby
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indeed it does.
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The bankruptcy profession, but also the federal judiciary, must reckon with this story, which continues to unfold through investigative reporting.
www.businessinsider.com/conflicts-of...
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(more details and links here: www.mbjacoby.org/unjustdebts)
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Here are the Unjust Debts launch events for the summer so far! Please come hang out with me real or virtually if you can.
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Melissa B. Jacoby
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This wild Slate story about Foxtrot by Elena Botella deserves a reading - now commercial law operates in real life doesn't look much like the textbook...
@slate.bsky.social
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Melissa B. Jacoby
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thank you so much, Juliet!
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thank you! Still no Philadelphia event set for the launch period, but I'll let you know if that changes.
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Ah, this site also seems not to have an edit button. I meant to say "you might well care about" Hope you will still want to read about Unjust Debts!
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Hey there bluesky. Less than one month until my first book comes out. It tells stories from the American bankruptcy system that raise issues you might well about. Read more about it here: www.mbjacoby.org/unjustdebts
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As I hope to demystify bankruptcy law for the public, grateful for early praise of Unjust Debts, including starred review + interview in Publisher's Weekly.
Links here: www.mbjacoby.org/unjustdebts
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Happy publication day to Rutgers Prof. Chrystin Ondersma. Dignity Not Debt now out with UC Press. I look forward to reading and learning.
www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...
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A Dr. Holman visit is indeed a wonderful thing!
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In addition to several Bon Jovi allusions, tort claimant committee wants case dismissed, says plan does not meet legal standards in any event.
You can find the pleading here: www.kccllc.net/tehum/docume...
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Prison health care company accused of mistreating incarcerated patients filed for bankruptcy, but only after extreme transactional maneuverings to insulate assets & operating business.
Finally, incarcerated claimants/families have bigger voice in case, and they say ... NO.
#Corizon/Tehum
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Court also warned about limitations of what can be done in chapter 11 in light of #SCOTUS directives in class actions, but that's for another day - far in the future as these cases are going to be stalled until 4th Circuit/SCOTUS provides guidance.
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On Dec 28, Charlotte bankruptcy court ruled that he will not dismiss two so-called two-step asbestos bankruptcies for lack of good faith, encouraged 4th Circuit to revisit and fix the prevailing standard. (Aldrich & Murray, part of Trane).
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Context: harder to make legal obligation for willful & malicious injury survive bankruptcy than... - student loan (presumptively survives unless financially distressed person brings & wins separate lawsuit) -local government fine imposed on individual (generally can't be cancelled).
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After all they have been through, GA poll workers now need lawyers to represent them as creditors in Giuliani bankruptcy. B/c Giuliani gets extraordinary legal protection for foreseeable future & poll workers will have to file separate suit in bankruptcy court to protect their judgment.
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Had been unsure sure about topic for first post on this site. With mixed emotion, it is about Rudolph Giuliani's Chapter 11, a case that almost certainly will highlight how lawyers have transformed the bankruptcy system in problematic ways.
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