business Cases
February 26, 2024
The Fifth Circuit used Section 363(m) to avoid ruling on equitable mootness following consummation of a chapter 11 plan.
February 22, 2024
If a confirmation order is found not to be equitably moot on appeal, the debtor can’t raise equitable mootness again on remand.
February 20, 2024
3rd Circuit , Delaware ,
Can Section 327(c) be unconstitutional as applied if it deprives shareholders of standing when the estate might be solvent?
February 15, 2024
Prof. Westbrook believes there is no common law alternative to chapter 15.
February 13, 2024
Nondischargeability for Sub V corporate debtors is sub judice in the Fifth Circuit.
February 12, 2024
10th Circuit , Colorado ,
A fully secured lender’s lawyer doesn’t have a ‘blank check’ to overwork a case, Bankruptcy Judge Kimberley Tyson says.
February 8, 2024
3rd Circuit , Delaware ,
Like Bankruptcy Judge Lopez in Houston, Delaware’s Judge Goldblatt decided that Delaware law governing LLCs can’t eliminate rights that are fundamental in federal bankruptcy law.
February 7, 2024
10th Circuit , Colorado ,
An opinion by Denver’s Judge McNamara describes the four interpretations of Section 1189(b) and follows the meaning given to Section 1221.
February 5, 2024
Knowledge of a chapter 11 case is enough to bind a creditor to the terms of a plan, even if the creditor hasn’t filed a claim, the Fifth Circuit says.
February 1, 2024
A vulgarity directed at the debtor wasn’t a stay violation absent an act designed to collect a debt.