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Ted Janger
@tjanger.bsky.social
David M. Barse Professor at Brooklyn Law School. I write and teach about bankruptcy, commercial law, consumer protection, contracts, and torts.
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Judge Sooknanan is giving a master class in judging during the Trump Administration -- but really in how judges should always value the people whose lives are affected by their decisions.
It makes me emotional to see Judge Sooknanan showing that she values each individual child’s life at a moment when this administration is doing exactly the opposite
NEW: Judge Sooknanan is back at it.

She orders DOJ to file at fifth status report to address whether the two children discussed in its previous report have been returned to ORR custody.

Status report due at 12 noon today.
September 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Law Review: @dalie.bsky.social , Missing Strugglers: Debt's Reach, Bankruptcy's Limits, and a Proxy for Who's Left Out (July 31, 2025). dlvr.it/TMbV4n
Law Review: Jiménez, Dalié, Missing Strugglers: Debt's Reach, Bankruptcy's Limits, and a Proxy for Who's Left Out (July 31, 2025). | Your North Carolina Bankruptcy Expert
Available at:   SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5377387 Summary:
dlvr.it
August 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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🚨 Registration is LIVE! 🚨

There has never been a more important time for pro-people, pro-democracy lawyers and law students to get organized.
actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...
May 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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It has nothing to do with antisemitism.

That’s a cover—for whatever the heck they want to do.

And using Jews as a partisan ploy? THAT’S antisemitic.
Stop with THEIR framing. It's not "combating antisemitism." (And I say this as a Jewish atheist.) It's criminalizing free speech.
April 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Law students say they want to work for the firms standing up to Trump www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Law students say they want to work for the firms standing up to Trump
Law students are weighing whether to take jobs at firms that have either capitulated to Trump or are fighting him in court.
www.politico.com
April 14, 2025 at 2:43 AM
This song is stuck in my head today: Arlo Guthrie singing a song by his dad youtu.be/qu-duTWccyI?...
Deportee (Plane Crash At Los Gatos) Woody Guthrie
YouTube video by Colin Wright
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April 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
One key lesson of the PW and Skadden debacles may be that a law firm should not let their transactional lawyers determine their litigation tactics…
March 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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WilmerHale was polite, professional, and direct.

BigLaw could learn. Now, WilmerHale needs to actually fight this thing out. These orders are blatantly, insanely unconstitutional.
March 28, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Less than 10 state bar associations signed onto this ABA statement in support of the rule of law? www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
www.americanbar.org
March 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Statement of U.S. law deans, 26 March 2025
March 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Re-upping this!! It's going to be great. If you want to see the full agenda, and/or RSVP, here's the link: www.brooklaw.edu/news-and-eve...
March 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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<saves to show FOIA office>
Gabbard claims "there was no classified materials that was shared in that Signal chat."
March 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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WARNER: “Were you in the group chat?”

GABBARD: “I won’t get into specifics.”

WARNER: “Is that because it’s classified?” 🎯 🔥

Warner rightly dragging them for an unbelievable situation. 🎪
March 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Hate having to share a Substack, but here's one to read.

Anyways, the "Not in Our Name" letter has been signed by more than 2,600 US Jewish academics (I'm #144). And frankly, I don't know if there's ever been that much collective consensus by Jews about... anything. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
March 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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A friend’s disgusted reaction to Paul, Weiss:

“So many non-profit lawyers have been so busy working on cases against the unconstitutional actions of the Administration, because the big firm lawyers with multiple houses and cars and boats and every other damn thing are too fucking weak to do it.”
March 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Just to be clear, the executive branch has no constitutional authority to refuse a court appearance on the ground of a unilateral determination that the law favors the president’s position. If the courts don’t push back, the rule of law, always precarious, never perfectly realized, is dead.
March 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Very excited to participate in this amazing symposium at @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social organized by @tjanger.bsky.social celebrating/discussing 5 forthcoming books on consumer debt and bankruptcy!

check out the all star panels!

Registration and full agenda here: www.brooklaw.edu/news-and-eve...
March 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
You can't make this stuff up . . .
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXeW...
Robin Williams Blame Canada HQ High Quality Oscars 2000 HD
YouTube video by tpacey1
www.youtube.com
March 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Never forget this day, February 28, 2025, when an American president abused and betrayed a democratic ally in the midst of a barbaric war with Russia. This grotesque stain will never wash away.
February 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Law professor friends, this letter is making the rounds. No doubt, many of you have already seen it. I have signed it. We all should. It seems to me that it merely states the obvious, but sometimes it is necessary to shout the obvious from the rooftops. . . docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
“We Are in a Constitutional Crisis”: Statement of Law Professors and Law Teachers
[Please read, sign, and circulate to colleagues as you see fit. Letter and list of signatories will be released to media on or about February 24. Many thanks.] The undersigned are professors and teach...
docs.google.com
February 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
February 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Everything wrong with how bankruptcy works in one headline.

qz.com/spirit-airli...
Bankrupt Spirit Airlines worth less than executives' 2023 pay
Shareholders' holdings are worth just a collective $12.6 million
qz.com
January 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Bankruptcy in the news, squared.
Although I followed this closely in its earlier chapter 11 iterations, and have studied bankruptcy sales for a long time (with @tjanger.bsky.social) would not have predicted these latest twists and turns.
A statement from The Onion about InfoWars.
December 11, 2024 at 2:08 PM