Distilled to its most basic sense, § 363(k) has always given secured creditor the right “credit bid,” or to use, up to the full amount of the debt owed to the secured creditor by the debtor, as currency in any sale of the collateral securing the debt owed to that claimant under § 363(b)...

This article argues that Ghana should implement certain international legal instruments (ILIs) relating to international sale of goods transactions. The article submits that the recommended instruments, if adopted, would harmonise Ghana’s laws with aspects of laws that govern international...

Depending on where in the United States one is located on any given Sunday or Christian holiday, it is against the law to buy a beer or a car, go shopping, hunt, or even play Bingo. This prohibition is a direct result of Blue Laws, alternatively called Sunday Closing Laws or Lord’s Day Acts....

New Zealand lawyers are dealing increasingly with Japan, and with its big corporations. This article discusses points of interest which arise, e.g. Cross-cultural overview, the status of the merchant, the development and use of law, Japanese strength of tradition and how Japan and its business...

Bank debit cards may look like credit cards, but they certainly do not act like them when it comes to account overdrafts. This does not suggest that credit cards are better than debit cards, as complaints abound concerning the transparency of fees charged to consumers for credit card...

After an unexpectedly slow start, the Trump Administration's deregulatory push finally gained momentum in late 2017. In the field of student lending, this slowdown affected the Department of Education (DOE), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and the Department of Justice (DOJ)....

When the Supreme Court (“Court”) handed down its opinions in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, 563 U.S. 333 (2011), the majority's holding engendered breathless (at least in legal terms) headlines. Clearly, without a smidgen of doubt on the part of arbitration's opponents and proponents, five...

In 2015, the interpretive tranquility that had come to typify the jurisprudence surrounding one of the most well-rooted hearsay exceptions — the business records one (“BRE”) — was ruptured. In that year, in Sierra Managed Asset Plan, LLC v. Hale (“Hale”) and Unifund CCR LLC v. Dear...

In early 2009, the Federal Reserve Board, along with the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) and the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) (the quot;Agenciesquot;) proposed new rules primarily targeted to ATM and debit card transactions quot;intended to ensure that consumers have clear and...

Twice in thirty years, the “mad scramble to the U.S. Courts for immediate attachments …” seemingly characteristic of cross-border cases prompted a legislative fix to this nation’s federal restructuring system, with territorialism giving way to progressively more pronounced...