business Cases
March 3, 2020
District court reverses and bars Sears from assigning Mall of America lease.
February 26, 2020
Despite the high court’s ban on nunc pro tunc orders, may bankruptcy courts make their orders retroactive?
February 25, 2020
Bankruptcy Judge Scott Clarkson of Santa Ana, Calif., issued the first reported decision on the new small business reorganization law that became effective on February 19.
February 25, 2020
High court rules that federal courts may make federal common law only to protect ‘uniquely’ federal interests.
February 24, 2020
Bankruptcy judge finds no statutory power for a chapter 13 trustee to prosecute a lawsuit that the debtor was judicially estopped for pursuing.
February 21, 2020
Reinstating a ruling by Bankruptcy Judge Cecelia Morris, the appeals court held that the Manville asbestos trust covers both in rem and in personam claims by ‘future’ claimants against insurers and brokers.
February 20, 2020
Appeals court says that using a trust for future asbestos claims rather than a bar order would be cheaper and avoid unnecessary litigation.
February 17, 2020
The bankruptcy court had ‘core’ jurisdiction over a dispute between two nondebtor third parties because the litigation involved the interpretation of a financing order.
February 13, 2020
The 2005 amendments to Section 546(c) departed from state law under UCC § 2-702 by creating a federal rule making reclamation claims subordinate to existing secured claims and DIP financing.
February 10, 2020
3rd Circuit , Delaware ,
Delaware’s Judge Owens won’t allow perpetrators of a fraudulent transfer to benefit from avoiding the transfer.