Rochelle's Daily Wire

The case from the Third Circuit was not a good vehicle for granting certiorari on either issue, even though there is a circuit split on nonconsensual, third-party releases.

Delaware district judge permits remand when the suit was subject to mandatory abstention.

Ninth Circuit assumed that transferred property must remain property of the estate after conversion from ‘13’ to ‘7’ before the chapter 7 trustee can avoid an unauthorized transfer under Section 549.

Failure to respond to a well-pleaded complaint implies consent for the bankruptcy court to enter final judgment in an avoidance action, Judge Glenn rules.

The bankruptcy court had ‘core’ jurisdiction over a dispute between two nondebtor third parties because the litigation involved the interpretation of a financing order.

District judge decides that he lacked jurisdiction to enforce a cross-border protocol against foreign liquidators.

The general rule in Langenkamp calling for the waiver of Seventh Amendment rights prevails over the unique facts of a case.

Sovereign immunity required dismissal of a suit to recover the value of a gambling license because the suit wasn’t an ancillary exercise of the bankruptcy court’s in rem jurisdiction over a res.

Fifth Circuit should decide en banc whether nondebtor releases are permissible in receiverships but not in bankruptcy cases.

Third Circuit emphasizes the limitation of nonconsensual, third-party releases to ‘exceptional’ cases.