No Quick Exit for Any Creditors from Puerto Rico’s Financial Mess, Judge Says
Judge refuses to issue declaratory judgments about Puerto Rico’s use of tax revenues.
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Asset Sale Appeals Are Moot Even if There Is a Jevic Violation, First Circuit Says
Waiving the automatic stay and immediately closing a sale does not make Section 363(m) inapplicable.
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Circuit Split Deepens on Rejection of Trademark Licenses
First Circuit follows the Fourth Circuit’s Lubrizol and rejects the Seventh Circuit’s Sunbeam.
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Boston Judge Allows Conversion to Chapter 13 Just to Prevent the Sale of a Home
Converting to chapter 13 to prevent the sale of a home in chapter 7 is not bad faith.
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Creative Theory Fails to Give an Automatic Appeal from a Non-Core Interlocutory Order
Interlocutory orders by bankruptcy courts on non-core claims don’t give rise to immediate de novo review as proposed findings and conclusions.
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First Circuit Narrowly Defines Fiduciaries Who Are Prohibited Buyers of Estate Assets
First Circuit narrowly applies equitable mootness in a receivership sale.
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First Circuit Widens a Circuit Split on a Committee’s Intervention Rights
Allowing intervention as of right, First Circuit repudiates its own prior authority as ‘pure dicta.’
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PROMESA Didn’t Enjoin Damages Suit Against Puerto Rico Government Official
Courts are reluctant to employ PROMESA as a shield against suits involving government administration.
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‘Related To’ Jurisdiction Exists over Lien Dispute Between a Creditor and Its Lawyers
Delaying confirmation wasn’t grounds to abstain.
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Presumptively Fraudulent Transfer Isn’t Enough to Appoint a Trustee, First Circuit Holds
First Circuit is uncharacteristically lenient on debtors in the context of a motion for a trustee.
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