Rochelle's Daily Wire

The 2005 amendment to Section 303(b)(1) disqualifies an involuntary petitioner if there is a dispute as to even part of the creditor’s claim.

The Second Circuit is remanding to district court for a ruling on the relief available to the landlord, given that the sale closed years ago.

The Madoff case makes more law: A claim against a bankrupt estate can’t be set off against liability for receipt of a fraudulent transfer because one arose before bankruptcy and the other arose after.

An exculpation clause in a chapter 11 plan protected the owner’s counsel from a malpractice suit.

A district judge, who had been a bankruptcy and BAP judge, narrowly interpreted 28 U.S.C. § 1412 as being inapplicable to pending suits only “related to” the bankruptcy.

As a unit of the district courts, bankruptcy courts are required to grant post-judgment interest in adversary proceedings under 28 U.S.C. § 1961(a).

Delaware’s Judge Goldblatt seems to be recommending that the Third Circuit close a loophole in confidentiality agreements.

A district judge in New York reversed the bankruptcy court, which had held that a Kuwaiti public pension fund was not entitled to sovereign immunity for having engaged in commercial activity.

The state law standards for creation of a contract governed enforceability of a term sheet signed after mediation.

Now a circuit judge, a former bankruptcy judge makes quick work of a troublesome issue about property of the estate.