Rochelle's Daily Wire

Across the board, the district court affirmed a decision by Bankruptcy Judge Michael Wiles that minimized landlords’ claims resulting from lease termination or rejection.

Bankruptcy Judge Michael Wiles differed with his colleagues who in previous years had employed the ‘time approach’ in calculating a landlord’s rejection damages under Section 502(b)(6).

Legal malpractice claims can be either tort or contract claims, the Second Circuit explains.

Ownership of a bank account isn’t enough by itself to make the account holder the initial transferee of a fraudulent transfer.

Extinguishing contingent environmental claims doesn’t comply with the Sixth Circuit’s Dow Corning test, Judge Koschik says.

Bankruptcy Judge Wiles explains the jurisdictional, statutory and constitutional reasons why nonconsensual releases are improper in the Second Circuit except in exceptional circumstances.

Bankruptcy Judge Wiles politely says that the Sixth Circuit reached the correct result for the wrong reason.

Firm allowed to drop a creditor-client and represent the debtor in chapter 11.

Third party liability for attorneys’ fees can leave debtor’s counsel in a worse position following nonpayment.

Another New York judge refuses to send a case to Delaware.