Rochelle's Daily Wire

A creditor can’t be compelled to arbitrate the validity of a claim before the bankruptcy court decides whether the involuntary petitioner’s claim is subject to a bona fide dispute.

Claims under pre-petition contracts extended after bankruptcy can have administrative status if there was benefit to the estate, district judge says, reversing the bankruptcy court.

Judge Glenn allowed the redaction of individual crypto customers’ home and email addresses, but requires the disclosure of their names and the amount of their claims. No redactions for business customers.

The transferee of a claim doesn’t have standing to object to recording the transfer of a claim to it on the claims docket, Judge Garrity says.

Saving Revlon’s bank $500 million, the Second Circuit holds that the law of restitution allows a bank to recover payments made mistakenly when the recipient had no right to receive the payment.

Being removed from an official committee doesn’t harm the former member’s pecuniary interests and therefore doesn’t confer appellate standing.

Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane in New York barred a chapter 11 claims agent from selling the claims docket to a claims trader in return for a share of the fees earned by the trader.

The Fifth Circuit said in dicta that courts might apply the ‘functional approach’ rather than the Countryman test in deciding whether a triangular contract is executory.

An appeal to the Third Circuit may tell us whether a ‘notwithstanding any other provision’ clause really means what it says.

The Ninth Circuit again questions the Supreme Court’s ‘atextual’ analysis of Section 523(a)(7).