Supreme Court Update: Equitable Mootness Not Ready for Prime Time
An arbitration case to be argued in November may inform bankruptcy courts whether they must enforce arbitration agreements.
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Supreme Court Likely to Tackle 2018 U.S. Trustee Fee Increase
The circuits are now split 2/2 on whether the 2018 increase in U.S. Trustee fees violated the Bankruptcy Clause because the increase didn’t apply immediately in bankruptcy administrator districts.
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Chapter 11 Feasibility and Related Confirmation Topics
Surety Bonds Aren’t Executory Contract and Can’t Be Assumed, District Judge Says
An irrevocable surety bond isn’t executory because it gives the bonding company no further obligations to the debtor.
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Objections to Priority Claims May Follow Confirmation of a Chapter 13 Plan
Confirming a chapter 13 plan on the assumption that a claim was entitled to priority didn’t bar the debtors from later objecting to the priority of the claim.
Issue and Claim Preclusion Didn’t Bar Challenging a Lien Previously Considered Valid
Newly applicable law permitted a chapter 13 debtor to cram down a lien that the debtor previously had considered to be valid.
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Third Circuit Makes More Rules on the Proper Scope of Asbestos Channeling Injunctions
The Third Circuit made more rules to decide whether an insurance company can be insulated from failure-to-warn claims by the channeling injunction in a chapter 11 ‘asbestos’ plan.
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Judge Mulls Johnson & Johnson Bid to Block Vote Changes in Ex-Talc Supplier Bankruptcy
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Confirmation: The Rest of the Story
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