Executory Contracts/Leases

Fifth Circuit Holds that Surety Bonds Are Not Executory Contracts

The Fifth Circuit said in dicta that courts might apply the ‘functional approach’ rather than the Countryman test in deciding whether a triangular contract is executory.
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FERC Strikes Out a Third Time in the Fifth Circuit on Rejecting Power Contracts

FERC tried the patience of the Fifth Circuit by arguing again that the agency can bar a chapter 11 debtor from rejecting a filed-rate contract.
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Supreme Court to Decide Whether Section 363(m) Is a Jurisdictional Bar to Appeal

The Supreme Court now has two bankruptcy cases on the calendar for argument in the term to begin in October.

Invoking Mirant, Fifth Circuit Permits Rejection of a Gas Pipeline Contract

Unsuccessfully attempting to punch homes in Mirant, FERC emerged from the Fifth Circuit with no power to stop bankruptcy courts from rejecting contracts otherwise within FERC’s jurisdiction.
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