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July 25, 2019

Fifth Circuit permits bar orders in receiverships while blocking nonconsensual, third-party releases in chapter 11 plans.

June 20, 2019

Fifth Circuit overturns a settlement that barred officers and directors from accessing insurance policies.

June 04, 2019

Fifth Circuit generally holds that heightened pleading standards in Rule 9(b) do not apply to claims that don’t rely on fraudulent activity, even though the overall scheme may be fraudulent.

May 30, 2019

Having previously made an ‘Erie’ guess finding no good faith defense to a fraudulent transfer, the Fifth Circuit now certifies the issue to the Texas Supreme Court.

March 22, 2019

New York district judge is the most recent court to uphold an injunction implementing a $7.2 billion Madoff settlement.

February 27, 2019

Neither comity nor the presumption against extraterritorial application of U.S. statutes bars trustees from suing to recover subsequent transfers made abroad.

February 15, 2019

An appellate court will decide whether four years of jailing means that civil incarceration has become futile.

February 07, 2019

Student’s entitlement to a refund determines whether a parent’s tuition payments are constructively fraudulent transfers.

January 16, 2019

Fifth Circuit rules that the Texas UFTA doesn’t have a ‘futility defense’ when a transferee is on inquiry notice regarding receipt of a fraudulent transfer.

December 19, 2018

New York judge allows insolvent parents to pay for a minor child’s expensive education.