The circuits are split on whether a creditors’ committee may intervene as of right in adversary proceedings under Section 1109(b).

Judge in New Jersey explains why chapter 11 is the best alternative for a large company to deal with mass torts.

Decisions by the U.S. Trustee are subject to judicial review, Judge Kaplan says.

Part-time self-employment, coupled with debt from a defunct business, qualified the debtor for reorganization under Subchapter V of chapter 11.

When drafting a statute, Congress cannot ‘think of every single esoteric possibility,’ Judge Mignault says.

Utah’s Judge Thurman says that a corporation liquidating its remaining assets is engaged in business ‘activities’ and is therefore eligible for Subchapter V.

A fast-food worker can (conceivably) qualify as a small business debtor under Subchapter V, according to Bankruptcy Judge Thomas B. McNamara.

The owner of defunct businesses was held ineligible to be a small business debtor because he was no longer the owner of an operating business. Being a non-owner executive of an operating business didn’t qualify him.

An appeal from a critical vendor order was dismissed as equitably moot.

Judge Grabill would have given commercial creditors either their own committee or special counsel given the different interests of sexual abuse claimants.