Bankruptcy Litigation

Circuits Split on Invoking Safe Harbor Whenever a Bank Serves as Conduit

Seventh Circuit won’t immunize an LBO from fraudulent transfer just by using a bank conduit.
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Rooker-Feldman Is No Bar to Overruling a State Court on the Automatic Stay

Despite concurrent jurisdiction, courts are split on Rooker-Feldman and the stay.
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Preference Rules Are the Same When Two Bankruptcies Collide

The Dreier Ponzi scheme, like Madoff, makes law on claims of defrauded creditors.
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Two New York Judges Disagree on Anti-Ipso Facto Law and Lehman Flip Clauses

Judge Chapman rejects former Judge Peck’s opinion invalidating flip clauses in swaps.
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