Cramer v. State Bar of Michigan

Parentheticals

• noting that forum shopping is discouraged

  United States ex rel. Wright v. Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland (In re North American Oil & Gas Co.)

• “its purpose was to cover cases where an expenditure of the estate’s funds increases the value of the collateral”

  In Re Wynnewood House Associates

• the form of the action taken to perfect is not as important as its substantive thrust-diligent action by the mortgagee which demonstrates that he would probably have obtained the rents had the bankruptcy not intervened

  Northwestern National Life Insurance v. Metro Square (In Re Metro Square)

• Butner emerged "unscathed by the new Bankruptcy Code”

  Financial Security Assurance, Inc. v. Tollman-Hundley Dalton, L.P.