Rochelle's Daily Wire

The district judge who overturned confirmation of Purdue’s chapter 11 plan is requiring the debtor to expedite the appeal to the Second Circuit.

Manhattan district judge vacated confirmation of Purdue Pharma’s chapter 11 plan because the court had no statutory power to impose non-consensual releases of creditors’ direct claims against non-debtors.

Maryland district judge predicts that the Fourth Circuit would adopt a debtor-friendly rule more broadly discharging environmental claims when the acts occurred before chapter 11.

A debtor with negative disposable income was forced to go through two trials and three appeals to discharge student loans.

New York district judge requires a student loan debtor to prove the reasonableness of living expenses when the lender never objected.

There can be no question about whether the beneficiary of a surety bond has been ‘paid in full’ before the surety has subrogation rights.

Confirming a chapter 13 plan on the assumption that a claim was entitled to priority didn’t bar the debtors from later objecting to the priority of the claim.

The Tenth Circuit will likely take sides on a split between the Ninth and Seventh Circuits on Section 544(b) state-law claims brought by a trustee in the shoes of an actual creditor.

Reversing the bankruptcy court, a district judge in New York held that a civil penalty wasn’t discharged even though the fraud wasn’t committed against the government.

In Pennsylvania, a gaming license isn’t ‘property.’ It’s a revocable license that can’t be owned.