Appeals court upholds health care district’s bankruptcy dismissal

Appeals court upholds health care district’s bankruptcy dismissal

Lea este artículo en español aquí.On March 21, the Northern District of California Appellate Court upheld a bankruptcy judge’s order dismissing the San Benito Health Care District’s bankruptcy petition.  The health care district, which meets to discuss the ruling on March 27 at  5 p.m., said it does not expect last week’s ruling to affect its negotiations with Michigan-based Insight Health to sell Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital’s assets and lea…

Supreme Court Sides With IRS in Bankruptcy Dispute

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on March 26 that state and federal law do not allow a bankruptcy trustee to take back a payment made to the IRS that may have been fraudulent. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote the 8-1 majority opinion in United States v. Miller. Justice Neil Gorsuch issued a dissenting opinion. A bankruptcy trustee is appointed by a court to administer a debtor’s estate in a bankruptcy proceeding. The trustee monitors the debtor’s…

Women’s History Spotlight: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

On Feb. 25, 2022 former United States President Joe Biden nominated Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson to become the first female of African American descent to be nominated as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America. On June 30, 2022, Jackson was sworn into the office and became the first […]