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November 12, 2024

When a trustee mistakenly seizes a nondebtor’s property, the Barton doctrine by itself doesn’t protect the trustee, but judicial estoppel does.

November 11, 2024

District judge in Delaware says that expert testimony must establish whether standard deviation is a proper statistical test to prove the ‘ordinary course’ defense to a preference.

November 8, 2024

A per curiam decision from the Seventh Circuit raises the question of whether Truck Insurance overruled ‘person aggrieved’ sub silentio.

November 7, 2024

A district court in Houston denied a motion to dismiss a confirmation appeal as equitably moot, although reversal might alter ownership of the reorganized debtor.

November 6, 2024

To defeat motions to dismiss, preference and fraudulent transfer complaints need not contain all the information to be learned in discovery, Bankruptcy Judge Craig Goldblatt says.

November 5, 2024

An involuntary petitioner whose claim was paid after filing is still counted as an involuntary petitioner, the Ninth Circuit BAP says.

November 1, 2024

A district court in Florida upheld Bankruptcy Judge Peter Russin in holding that substantive consolidation does not require an adversary proceeding, a summons or a complaint.

October 28, 2024

At least with regard to standing for objections to claims, Delaware’s Judge Craig Goldblatt believes that the Truck Insurance standard for chapter 11 also applies in chapter 7.

October 23, 2024

Dilatory actions by a debtor tolled statutes of limitations for a trustee’s suit against a third party.

October 18, 2024

Once affirmed in the Ninth Circuit, the debtor could file a petition for certiorari to resolve an important circuit split on assumption of intellectual property contracts.

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