Rochelle's Daily Wire

The Fifth Circuit and now the Court of Claims found no constitutional flaw in the 2017 increase in fees paid by chapter 11 debtors to the U.S. Trustee system.

Dissenter in the Fifth Circuit believes that having both U.S. Trustees and bankruptcy administrators violates the Uniformity Clause.

Although ineligible on its own to be a debtor under subchapter V of chapter 11, the debt of the ineligible company is nonetheless aggregated with the debts of its affiliates to determine whether affiliates are eligible for subchapter V.

Creditors are entitled to ‘default interest’ when the debtor is solvent.

Proceeds from fraudulently transferred property can be recovered from subsequent transferees, Judge Rodriguez says, differing with the Tenth Circuit’s Generation Resources opinion.

The equitable power under Section 105(a) permits extending the discharge objection deadline when the court makes a mistake.

A cramdown plan can reduce the collateral coverage for secured creditors.

Following the answer by the Texas Supreme Court to a certified question, the Fifth Circuit again rules that an inability to discover fraud won’t absolve a transferee from the duty to investigate suspicions of fraud.

Judge Grabill finds nothing in Section 1329(d) to preclude extending the duration of a plan if payments were already in default when the CARES Act was enacted on March 27.

Insurance companies must nail down the treatment of performance bonds before plan confirmation.