June 28, 2024
Justice Gorsuch for the majority bans third-party releases broader than a discharge for those who don’t surrender all their assets to the court.
June 25, 2024
The circuits are split on whether a creditor has an ‘unfettered’ right to join as an involuntary petitioner.
April 20, 2024
Differing with eight lower courts, the Fifth Circuit sided with the Fourth Circuit by holding that debts of corporate debtors in Subchapter V can be nondischargeable in nonconsensual plans.
October 19, 2023
Oregon Supreme Court allows substitution of a bankruptcy trustee as the real party in interest because denial would chiefly punish the debtor’s creditors.
9th Circuit , Oregon ,
August 1, 2023
The court’s ability to compel trial testimony by video doesn’t eradicate the 100-mile limitation on issuance of trial subpoenas.
Rebuffed in the Second Circuit, the Solicitor General is asking the Supreme Court to stay issuance of the mandate that would allow Purdue Pharma to consummate its chapter 11 plan.
May 17, 2023
The Supreme Court ducked the question of whether Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories are entitled to Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity just like states.
May 10, 2023
An appeal from an interlocutory order can’t be made final by the district court’s entry of judgment on the first appeal.
January 12, 2023
Adroitly drafting a chapter 11 plan may avoid having a liquidating trust pay quarterly fees to the U.S. Trustee.
January 10, 2023
Applying ordinary contract law, New York judge rules that customers are bound by contracts they haven’t read.