Rochelle's Daily Wire

Fifth Circuit declines to create a circuit split on the ability of a coal producer to sell assets and protect the buyer from liability for retiree health benefits under the Coal Act.

Lease assumption is binding even if the debtor doesn’t follow the procedural requirements of Section 365(p).

A split panel on the Sixth Circuit held that Section 959(b) barred the debtor from halting participation in a state employees’ pension plan.

Second Circuit prevents ‘artful drafting’ from evading the cap on golden parachutes under Section 502(b)(7).

The belief that Section 363(m) is jurisdictional allowed a buyer to profit from taking a misleading position in bankruptcy court.

Section 365(d)(3) doesn’t contain a remedy for failure to pay rent on time, Judge Huennekens says.

For the Eleventh Circuit, scheduling the unsecured claim resulted in automatic rejection even though the contract was not scheduled as executory.

Majority on Ninth Circuit panel believe that having previously extended a deadline allowed the invocation of “excusable neglect” to extend the deadline again after it expired.

Appeals court had sympathy for the debtor by disallowing part but not all of a judgment for receipt of a fraudulent transfer with ‘actual intent.’

District court reverses and bars Sears from assigning Mall of America lease.