Rochelle's Daily Wire

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.

The city of San Juan unsuccessfully argued that the PROMESA Oversight Board has no fiscal control over municipalities in Puerto Rico.

Court weighs the relative advantages of receivership versus bankruptcy in deciding whether to bar the filing of an involuntary bankruptcy.

The ‘fugitive disentitlement doctrine’ does not allow a federal court to dismiss an appeal because of a fugitive’s contempt of a state court order, the First Circuit rules.

States have no sovereign immunity defense to lien stripping, even if the state has not filed a proof of claim.