business Cases
August 6, 2021
Fifth Circuit rejects technical arguments aimed at skirting Section 363(m) and statutory mootness of a sale order.
July 30, 2021
The $13,650 cap on priority claims for each employee under an ‘employee benefit plan’ applies to each benefit plan, not to all of an employer’s benefit plans added together, the Seventh Circuit says.
July 27, 2021
3rd Circuit , Delaware ,
Critical vendor status is a defense to a preference claim only when the defendant was specifically named in an order, stipulation or agreement requiring full payment of the creditor’s prepetition claim, Judge Dorsey says.
July 23, 2021
The bankruptcy community needs a better definition of what’s an executory contract, and Prof. Jay Westbrook has it.
July 21, 2021
Judge Hoffman sets up Sixth Circuit to opine on the circuit split regarding the constitutionality of the 2018 increase in fees for the U.S. Trustee system.
July 16, 2021
Actual notice is required even for contingent liabilities not shown on financial statements, the Sixth Circuit holds.
July 14, 2021
Officers are presumptively disqualified from KERPs, “absent a strong showing that they do not perform any significant role in management,” a district judge in New York says.
July 12, 2021
Increasingly, courts are allowing defunct corporations to proceed under the SBRA while individual owners of defunct businesses aren’t being treated as small business debtors in chapter 11.
July 8, 2021
Bankruptcy Judge Garrity didn’t impose a good faith filing requirement onto foreign main recognition of a chapter 15 case.
July 7, 2021
3rd Circuit , Delaware ,
A standard provision in a trust indenture meant no recovery for the indenture trustee’s attorneys.