business Cases
March 28, 2018
Bankruptcy Judge Vyskocil holds that alter ego need not be alleged to recover from a corporation’s sole shareholder as the beneficiary of a fraudulent transfer.
March 27, 2018
The trustee for a bankrupt broker can ignore an individual customer’s request to transfer securities to a solvent broker and may instead transfer customer accounts in bulk.
March 21, 2018
3rd Circuit , Delaware ,
Delaware judge shows sympathy for a creditor being stiffed by the debtor.
March 20, 2018
For swaps, the Section 560 safe harbor overrides the anti-ipso facto provisions in the Bankruptcy Code.
March 16, 2018
4th Circuit , Maryland ,
Unperformed obligations must be ‘material’ for a contract to be executory.
March 15, 2018
Courts are split on aggregating filed and non-filed claims in calculating chapter 12 eligibility.
March 12, 2018
9th Circuit , Montana ,
Montana judge cuts committee counsel’s interim allowance to rates charged by debtor’s counsel.
March 7, 2018
Jewel has now been formally rejected in New York and California. Washington, D.C. is next.
March 5, 2018
Yet another example of how hard cases make bad law.
March 5, 2018
Some justices are critical of the existing test for ruling on non-statutory insider status.