CLLA Luncheon & Programs

Monday October 29
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM | MRC-Salon G
Luncheon, Lawrence P. King Award & Keynote
Tickets for purchase through NCBJ conference registration.

Bankruptcy Supreme Court Round-Up: Is Functionalism Back?

KEYNOTE
Prof. John A.E. Pottow
University of MI, Law
Ann Arbor, MI

The Supreme Court handed down three cases this year in the area. Although seemingly narrow in focus and surprisingly consensual in resolution, that surface veneer masks deeper complexities. As usual, the methodology of textualism comes to the foreground as a recurring issue in the Court's bankruptcy jurisprudence. More regrettably, fundamental misconception (whether willful or inadvertent) with the general structure of the bankruptcy system once again may be rearing its head.

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Monday October 29
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM | MRC-Salon G
CLLA Frank Koger Memorial Program

What’s hotter Than a San Antonio Sun? This Year’s Court of Appeals Update
This panel will go over major Courts of Appeal decisions and make predictions on which ones may require U.S.
Supreme Court review. The panel will discuss both consumer and commercial bankruptcy developments.

PANELISTS
Hon. Leif Clark, U.S. Bankruptcy Court (Ret.); San Antonio, Austin, Waco and El Paso, TX
Hon. H. Christopher Mott, U.S. Bankruptcy Court (W.D. Tex.); Austin and El Paso, TX
Hon. Brenda T. Rhoades, U.S. Bankruptcy Court (E.D. Tex.); Plano, TX
Ron Peterson, Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL