Fifth Circuit didn’t permit plan proponents to structure a chapter 11 plan so that an appeal would be equitably moot.

The Fifth Circuit declines to adopt a securities industry guidebook for what’s a permissible financing.

Fifth Circuit says that the court must have obtained personal jurisdiction over a third party in a receivership to enforce an injunction. Is the same true for the automatic stay and the discharge injunction in bankruptcy? Is there no injunction before there’s personal jurisdiction?

The Fifth Circuit dissenter says that the majority set aside findings of fact without showing them to be clearly erroneous.

Assisting a debtor in effecting a fraudulent transfer with ‘actual intent’ isn’t enough to hold the transferee liable.

Fifth Circuit upholds its prior ruling that disallowing part of a claim under the Bankruptcy Code does not render the claim ‘impaired’ to allow voting on a chapter 11 plan.

Newly appointed circuit judge uses ancient English law to illuminate the Bankruptcy Code.