business Cases
June 5, 2019
Allegedly repudiating U.S. dollar obligations won’t preclude a finding of property in the U.S., Judge Lane rules.
June 4, 2019
Fifth Circuit generally holds that heightened pleading standards in Rule 9(b) do not apply to claims that don’t rely on fraudulent activity, even though the overall scheme may be fraudulent.
June 3, 2019
‘No objectively reasonable basis’ is the high court standard to find civil contempt for violating the discharge injunction.
May 31, 2019
A joint check agreement signed in the preference window is a preference, two Virginia judges say.
May 30, 2019
Having previously made an ‘Erie’ guess finding no good faith defense to a fraudulent transfer, the Fifth Circuit now certifies the issue to the Texas Supreme Court.
May 28, 2019
Plain language of Section 547 defeated what could have been an easily avoided preference.
May 24, 2019
New judge on the Sixth Circuit raises a host of questions about the requisites of standing in bankruptcy court.
May 20, 2019
Supreme Court gets around to overruling Lubrizol almost 35 years later.
May 17, 2019
3rd Circuit , Delaware ,
Discretionary bonuses by an insolvent employer are not automatically fraudulent transfers, Judge Silverstein says.
May 14, 2019
Fifth Circuit rejects the ‘recodification canon’ to divest bankruptcy courts of jurisdiction over Social Security suits.