February 23, 2022
Judge Sontchi set aside a prior order preventing the trustee from controlling litigation brought in the trustee’s name.
3rd Circuit, Delaware
January 03, 2022
Chapter 7 trustee was precluded from terminating a lawsuit because a secured lender had been given the right to settle.
3rd Circuit, Delaware
September 02, 2021
The Supreme Court’s Grupo Mexicano decision doesn’t bar a bankruptcy court from freezing a defendant’s assets prior to judgment in a fraud action, Judge Sontchi says.
3rd Circuit, Delaware
September 01, 2021
Reversing in favor of the Madoff trustee, the Second Circuit rules that inquiry notice, not willful blindness, governs the good faith defense by recipients of fraudulent transfers.
2nd Circuit
August 20, 2021
It isn’t duress when a lender threatens to take action that the loan agreement allows, the circuit court says.
5th Circuit
March 30, 2021
The Eleventh Circuit narrowed its Jet Florida rule that allowed suing a discharged debtor as nominal defendant.
11th Circuit
January 06, 2021
Providing a necessary service for a Ponzi-schemer was enough to make an employee liable to return compensation as a fraudulent transfer.
10th Circuit, Utah
