June 20, 2025
A chapter 11 debtor may be saddled with smaller WARN Act claims by imposing mass layoffs after filing.
5th Circuit, Mississippi
June 17, 2025
Selling a debtor’s claims must be structured to avoid champerty under state law.
5th Circuit
June 16, 2025
A plan saying that it satisfies and settles claims does nothing more than discharge the claims. It doesn’t extinguish the claims, the Fifth Circuit says.
5th Circuit
June 06, 2025
Circuit Judge Edith Jones explains that the word ‘or’ in Section 550(a) doesn’t mean ‘and.’
5th Circuit
May 22, 2025
Judge Meredith Grabill of New Orleans agreed with New York’s Judge Mastando that a Subchapter V plan can enjoin lawsuits against nondebtors for the life of a three-year plan.
5th Circuit, Louisiana, Louisiana Eastern District
April 25, 2025
A 2/1 decision required chapter 13 debtors to accelerate repayment of nondischargeable student loans.
5th Circuit
April 14, 2025
The district judge who excoriated Jackson Walker in a decision last year will now decide whether the firm must disgorge what it was paid in dozens of large chapter 11 cases.
5th Circuit, Texas, Texas Southern District
April 09, 2025
A bankruptcy judge in San Antonio disagreed with two bankruptcy judges in Houston by holding that a nonvoting class is equivalent to rejecting a plan in Subchapter V of chapter 11.
5th Circuit, Texas, Texas Southern District
April 04, 2025
Circuit court upholds Bankruptcy Judge Jernigan: Notice by publication doesn’t discharge claims from a lease that rode through chapter 11 or was assumed.
5th Circuit
April 03, 2025
Houston’s Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez decided that the newest plan by a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary didn’t qualify for nondebtor releases permissible in asbestos cases.
5th Circuit, Texas, Texas Southern District
