Rochelle's Daily Wire

The new decision from the Second Circuit is based on prior opinions where the appeals court said there was no “jurisdiction” when it would have been correct to say there was no “power.”

Manhattan district judge vacated confirmation of Purdue Pharma’s chapter 11 plan because the court had no statutory power to impose non-consensual releases of creditors’ direct claims against non-debtors.

Judge Garrity wasn’t required to rule on whether Bankruptcy Rule 2004 applies in chapter 15 cases.

The circuits are split on whether the Supreme Court’s BFP opinion can be extended to bar fraudulent transfer attacks on in rem real estate tax foreclosures.

Insurance coverage disputes are ‘routinely resolved in summary judgment,’ counseling against immediate withdrawal of the reference of a non-core lawsuit, district judge says.

New York district judge requires a student loan debtor to prove the reasonableness of living expenses when the lender never objected.

Had the purchaser of estate claims offered to waive its own unsecured claim, the sale might have been approved.

Bankruptcy Judge Eduardo Rodriguez explained why the Second Circuit was wrong in ruling that violators of Rule 3002.1 are only liable for compensatory damages.

Properly structuring a leveraged refinancing in the Second Circuit can avoid attack as a fraudulent transfer despite the Supreme Court’s effort at narrowing the ‘safe harbor.’

Reversing the bankruptcy court, a district judge in New York held that a civil penalty wasn’t discharged even though the fraud wasn’t committed against the government.