business Cases
March 3, 2021
An appeal from a critical vendor order was dismissed as equitably moot.
March 2, 2021
Fee-shifting clause in the lease entitled the debtor to recover $606,000 in attorneys’ fees from the landlord for opposing lease assumption.
February 25, 2021
Unsubstantiated statements that a sale closed didn’t persuade a district judge in Dallas to invoke equitable or statutory mootness.
February 24, 2021
Due process considerations persuaded District Judge Oetken to conclude that a creditor’s claims, unknown at the time, were not barred by a settlement.
February 23, 2021
To sell free and clear, someone with an interest in the property must receive the notice required for service of a summons and complaint. Actual notice doesn’t suffice.
February 18, 2021
Even though the debtor was no longer in business, a Medicaid fraud suit was not subject to the automatic stay and thus served as a deterrent to others.
February 15, 2021
Circuit Judge Sutton shied away from making a wife liable for her husband’s debts, even though the wife carried on the husband’s farming business.
February 12, 2021
Judge Grabill would have given commercial creditors either their own committee or special counsel given the different interests of sexual abuse claimants.
February 11, 2021
Confirmation appeals in two big cases are dismissed on the same day for equitable mootness.
February 10, 2021
The finding of proper notice in a confirmation order satisfies the debtor’s burden of proving notice by publication to creditors with future claims, even in the absence of a trust for future creditors, Houston judge says.