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March 27, 2020

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

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 10, 2020

Delaware’s Judge Owens won’t allow perpetrators of a fraudulent transfer to benefit from avoiding the transfer.

January 29, 2020

The one-year discovery clause in UFTA allows a debtor or trustee to file an avoidance suit even if the ordinary four-year statute has elapsed.

January 23, 2020

Courts are divided on whether the district court loses jurisdiction to stay proceedings in bankruptcy court after the filing of a notice of appeal.

January 14, 2020

Parting with some other bankruptcy courts, Judge Walrath upholds the constitutionality of the major increase in U.S. Trustee fees that was imposed on pending cases in early 2018.

January 08, 2020

Sovereign immunity required dismissal of a suit to recover the value of a gambling license because the suit wasn’t an ancillary exercise of the bankruptcy court’s in rem jurisdiction over a res.

December 30, 2019

Appeals court upholds finding that the mortgage securities market in 2007 was declining, not dysfunctional.

December 23, 2019

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