Submitting a retention order with the wrong word resulted in a pivotal issue on appeal.

Environmental fines are discharged in chapter 11 because they do not result from pecuniary loss.

Third Circuit emphasizes the limitation of nonconsensual, third-party releases to ‘exceptional’ cases.

Judges Stark and Carey from Delaware distinguish between prohibiting the power and the right to assign a claim.

Delaware district judge rules that the bankruptcy court has final adjudicatory power to include third-party releases in confirmation orders.

Delaware district judge explains why Stern doesn’t confer the equivalent of an appeal from an interlocutory order.

Delaware district and bankruptcy judges now disagree with the Second Circuit’s holding that the federal safe harbor preempts state fraudulent transfer law.

Bankruptcy courts can’t issue final orders approving third-party releases in chapter 11 plans.