Rochelle's Daily Wire

The Fourth Circuit majority upheld a preliminary injunction barring tort suits against a debtor’s nonbankrupt affiliates following a Texas divisional merger.

Fifth Circuit finds no bankruptcy jurisdiction to approve a settlement after confirmation that contradicts the chapter 11 plan.

At least where nondebtor releases are prohibited, and if Delaware law controls, a suit against an alter ego doesn’t violate the discharge injunction, the Ninth Circuit BAP says.

The Supreme Court resolved a split of circuits in an opinion that could give support to the notion that arbitration agreements are not enforceable in bankruptcy.

Bankruptcy Judge Shannon says that the liquidating trust was not debtor’s counsel’s former client.

Indianapolis Bankruptcy Judge Jeffrey Graham says that the bankruptcy court cannot become “another court of general jurisdiction.”

A judge sitting in a proper venue may transfer venue to a district that was improper originally.

Eighth Circuit BAP ‘at a minimum’ requires substantial changes in financial condition for a debtor to modify a confirmed chapter 12 plan.

The concurring opinion, which is really a dissent, urges the Supreme Court to grant certiorari and resolve the split of circuits on nondebtor releases.

The high court’s ruling on the Takings Clause also seems to mean that real estate tax foreclosures can be avoided as constructively fraudulent transfers.