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June 05, 2025

When creditors have been paid in full, a trustee may pursue fraudulent transfers for the benefit of defrauded equity holders, Bankruptcy Judge Craig Goldblatt says.

May 20, 2025

The circuit courts are diverging on the utility of equitable mootness to avoid reversing confirmation of chapter 11 plans.

May 19, 2025

Holding $1.4 billion in escrow did not preclude invocation of equitable mootness, Third Circuit majority says.

May 16, 2025

The Third Circuit majority upheld nondebtor, nonconsensual releases because they were part of a sale, making the appeal statutorily moot under Section 363(m).

May 15, 2025

The Third Circuit splits from Seventh and Tenth Circuit opinions dating from 1987 and 1990.

May 08, 2025

The circuits are split on whether equity can extend the 60-day deadline for filing dischargeability complaints.

April 28, 2025

The debtors’ inequitable conduct didn’t relieve counsel of the duty to disclose fees charged for post-petition litigation.

April 21, 2025

Section 107 more broadly protects trade secrets and confidential information than does common law.

April 17, 2025

Foreign reorganizations with nondebtor releases are not ‘manifestly contrary’ to public policy after Purdue, according to Delaware’s Bankruptcy Judge Thomas Horan.

March 07, 2025

The Third Circuit upheld Bankruptcy Judge Goldblatt of Delaware where the answer was self-evident but there was no controlling authority.