Rochelle's Daily Wire

On remand from the Supreme Court and the Second Circuit, the district court decides that the Mall of America landlord isn’t entitled to more than the bargain it made with Sears in 1991.

If a breach results only in a right to equitable relief, there is no ‘claim’ and thus no executory contract.

Federal Rule 60(b) can’t ‘end run’ Section 1144, Bankruptcy Judge Kimball holds.

A potential bidder wasn’t barred from suing the successful bidder outside of bankruptcy court.

Absent ‘concerns peculiar to bankruptcy’ when there is an arbitration clause, the district court followed Henry Schein by saying that the bankruptcy court should have allowed arbitrators to decide which claims are arbitrable, or not.

As a follow-up to Highland Capital Management, the Fifth Circuit explained when gatekeeping orders are appropriate.

A Third Circuit decision shows the breadth of unliquidated and contingent claims.

The BAP judges disagreed over whether the amount of sanctions had to be fixed before there could be an appeal from an order declaring that the injured party was entitled to an award of attorneys’ fees for the contemnor’s contempt.

Delaware’s Judge Laurie Selber Silverstein tackled several novel questions about a U.S. court’s authority in chapter 15 to approve novel, foreign transactions and sell the foreign debtor’s property in the U.S.

New York’s Judge Martin Glenn disapproved a lockup agreement masquerading as a plan-support agreement that required the creditor to vote for any plan the debtor might propose.