business Cases
February 28, 2024
In bankruptcy proceedings, formal notice isn’t required if there is actual notice, the Tenth Circuit says.
February 27, 2024
Two North Carolina Courts have held within two months that the Bankruptcy Clause doesn’t demand ‘financial distress’ to establish subject matter jurisdiction.
February 26, 2024
The Fifth Circuit used Section 363(m) to avoid ruling on equitable mootness following consummation of a chapter 11 plan.
February 22, 2024
If a confirmation order is found not to be equitably moot on appeal, the debtor can’t raise equitable mootness again on remand.
February 20, 2024
3rd Circuit , Delaware ,
Can Section 327(c) be unconstitutional as applied if it deprives shareholders of standing when the estate might be solvent?
February 15, 2024
Prof. Westbrook believes there is no common law alternative to chapter 15.
February 13, 2024
Nondischargeability for Sub V corporate debtors is sub judice in the Fifth Circuit.
February 12, 2024
10th Circuit , Colorado ,
A fully secured lender’s lawyer doesn’t have a ‘blank check’ to overwork a case, Bankruptcy Judge Kimberley Tyson says.
February 8, 2024
3rd Circuit , Delaware ,
Like Bankruptcy Judge Lopez in Houston, Delaware’s Judge Goldblatt decided that Delaware law governing LLCs can’t eliminate rights that are fundamental in federal bankruptcy law.
February 7, 2024
10th Circuit , Colorado ,
An opinion by Denver’s Judge McNamara describes the four interpretations of Section 1189(b) and follows the meaning given to Section 1221.