Rochelle's Daily Wire

An appeal brewing in West Virginia may give the Fourth Circuit an opportunity to decide when or whether arbitration agreements are enforceable in bankruptcy.

The ‘possibility of harm’ won’t confer bankruptcy appellate standing, the Fifth Circuit says.

Federal courts have no jurisdiction to review decisions by Puerto Rico’s Oversight Board regarding the reduction of pension benefits.

Disputed facts can defeat invocation of judicial estoppel on summary judgment.

The Fourth Circuit wrote a scholarly (and dense) opinion differentiating among bankruptcy standing, bankruptcy appellate standing and constitutional standing.

Federal Rule 41(a)(1)(A) only permits voluntary dismissal of an entire action, not individual claims, the Eleventh Circuit says.

In a case irreconcilable with two recent opinions from the Eleventh Circuit, the Fifth Circuit invokes Barton to bar a lawsuit against a trustee after the bankruptcy case had been closed.

Interference with state regulators can compel a bankruptcy court to abstain, even if abstention was not required under 28 U.S.C. § 1334(c).

The justices seem inclined to hold that Section 363(m) is not jurisdictional, if they first decide that the appeal is not moot.

The Second Circuit adapts Rash to value the lender’s collateral in chapter 11 where there was a going-concern sale.