Rochelle's Daily Wire

The Third Circuit gave royalty owners a constructive trust over royalties improperly paid to secured creditors. The circuit court did not rule on remedy.

A D&O policy covering securities claims doesn’t provide coverage for a claim resulting from a fraudulent transfer, the Delaware Supreme Court rules.

The ‘new value’ offered by old equity in a chapter 11 plan was insufficient because it was only a small fraction of claims and because the dividend to creditors was also small.

Official Form 122C-2 could be read to deprive a chapter 13 debtor of the IRS standard housing deduction when the statute permits the deduction.

Whether a creditor violated the automatic stay is not arbitrable in bankruptcy.

Invoking Supreme Court authority, the Tenth Circuit says that inferences from the evidence are reviewed for clear error just like findings of fact themselves.

Acquiescence in an appeal to a BAP waives any right to de novo review by an Article III judge.

The standard for defeating equitable disgorgement is lower than the proof required to fend off receipt of a fraudulent transfer.

An inchoate interest in property created by filing a divorce action doesn’t survive dismissal of the divorce action, the Tenth Circuit BAP says.

Some authority from the Supreme Court suggests that a contempt order without imposition of attorneys’ fees would not be final in a bankruptcy case.