Rochelle's Daily Wire

Death is a reason for waiving the requirement for completing a financial management course.

Status as a ‘known’ or ‘unknown’ creditor misses the point when a lease was either assumed or rode through the chapter 11 case, Judge Jernigan says.

In a nonprecedential opinion, the Fifth Circuit suggests that a mortgage that could be reformed in state court cannot be reformed in bankruptcy.

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.

Fifth Circuit opinion shows that disallowance of a class proof of claim may preclude individual class members from filing late claims.

To satisfy Article III, an appellee need only have ‘concrete adverseness’ and an ongoing interest in the dispute.

Although averse to third-party releases in chapter 11 plans, the Fifth Circuit will allow bankruptcy courts to enforce releases given by one third party to another.

A successful outcome does not entitle an attorney to be paid for performing administrative services delegated to the trustee.

Plan amendments in chapter 13 must come before the debtors make their final payments to the trustee.

A lender’s breach of a factoring agreement forced a company into bankruptcy that would have survived otherwise, Judge Jernigan says.