December 28, 2021
Split grows on allowance of makewholes and what constitutes disallowed, unmatured interest.
3rd Circuit , Delaware ,
December 20, 2021
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.
December 9, 2021
Treaties disagree on whether interest is required in 100% chapter 13 plans when the debtor is not devoting all disposable income to the plan.
Government Urges Supreme Court to Review Constitutionality of the 2018 Increase in U.S. Trustee Fees
The U.S. Solicitor General wants the Supreme Court to resolve a circuit split and decide whether the increase in U.S. Trustee fees violated the Bankruptcy Clause because it was not immediately applicable in two states with bankruptcy administrators.
November 19, 2021
Reducing a claim between the first and second bankruptcy didn’t prevent the Fifth Circuit from employing res judicata.
November 18, 2021
The appeals court barred the holder of a personal guarantee from launching a collateral attack on a confirmed chapter 11 plan.
November 17, 2021
Eleventh Circuit holds that the lack of notice required by Bankruptcy Rule 2002(c)(3) did not result in the invalidity of non-debtor, third-party releases in a chapter 11 plan.
November 10, 2021
The Eleventh Circuit has two standards for non-debtor releases: One for free-standing settlements and another for releases engrafted into chapter 11 reorganization plans
October 15, 2021
An arbitration case to be argued in November may inform bankruptcy courts whether they must enforce arbitration agreements.
October 8, 2021
The circuits are now split 2/2 on whether the 2018 increase in U.S. Trustee fees violated the Bankruptcy Clause because the increase didn’t apply immediately in bankruptcy administrator districts.