business Cases
May 23, 2024
Seventh Circuit again holds that Section 505(a) doesn’t confer jurisdiction for bankruptcy courts to decide how much debtors owe in taxes.
May 21, 2024
Judge Randal Mashburn described what a state court must do in appointing a receiver that would prevent an LLC’s manager from filing a bankruptcy petition.
May 20, 2024
A lender was filing baseless dischargeability complaints believing that the impecunious debtors would default or settle.
May 17, 2024
The Bankruptcy Code dropped ‘person aggrieved’ as the standard for appellate standing. Did it survive nonetheless?
May 15, 2024
Whether orders in contested matters are ever appealable is in doubt after a Fourth Circuit decision that declined to follow contrary opinions by bankruptcy appellate panels.
May 9, 2024
Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Bradley disagreed with a district court in Florida that required a ‘true up’ if actual disposable income in Sub V exceeds projected disposable income.
May 8, 2024
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.
May 7, 2024
If a breach results only in a right to equitable relief, there is no ‘claim’ and thus no executory contract.
May 6, 2024
Federal Rule 60(b) can’t ‘end run’ Section 1144, Bankruptcy Judge Kimball holds.
May 3, 2024
A potential bidder wasn’t barred from suing the successful bidder outside of bankruptcy court.