business Cases
November 20, 2018
Lease-approval order held moot under Section 363(m) for lack of a stay pending appeal.
November 19, 2018
A triangular setoff, valid under state law, is unenforceable in bankruptcy under Section 553(a).
November 15, 2018
Super priority claims are not created under Section 503(b) and therefore don’t take a back seat to chapter 7 administrative claims.
November 14, 2018
Judge Vyskocil denounces an involuntary petition as an attempt by senior, fully secured noteholders to profit at the expense of subordinate noteholders.
November 9, 2018
Florida judge finds no duty to investigate suspicions of fraud when even the auditors had been duped.
November 6, 2018
An Alabama statute designed to aid wrongful death claimants ends up hurting them in Chrysler’s bankruptcy.
November 5, 2018
A supersedeas bond and a cash deposit are interchangeable in terms of the rights of a judgment creditor, Judge Sacca says.
October 31, 2018
Fifth Circuit leaves the door open to preventing automatic rejection if the existence of an executory contract is intentionally undisclosed.
October 29, 2018
High court will resolve a circuit split dating back to the Fourth Circuit’s controversial Lubrizol opinion in 1985.
October 26, 2018
Judge Glenn criticizes an 1890 English decision refusing to enforce a foreign discharge of debt.