September 02, 2025
The dissenter on rehearing believes there are narrow grounds for reopening a closed bankruptcy case.
3rd Circuit
August 29, 2025
The majority on a Third Circuit panel decided that a confirmation order many years earlier prevented one nondebtor from suing another nondebtor on an issue that wouldn’t affect the debtor’s estate but did entail interpreting the confirmation order.
3rd Circuit
August 28, 2025
Reversing its prior decision after rehearing, the Third Circuit allowed a bankruptcy judge to interpret a confirmation decision made 12 years before by a district judge.
3rd Circuit
August 26, 2025
Second Circuit dismisses the last of 300 lawsuits by foreign liquidators to recover $6 billion for defrauded Madoff investors.
2nd Circuit
August 25, 2025
Bankruptcy Judge Harner of Baltimore and Sacramento’s Bankruptcy Judge Klein have both authorized status conferences allowing abuse survivors to address the court and the church.
Maryland
August 21, 2025
In a chapter 7 case, a disappointed bidder wasn’t required to show Article III standing but was still required to demonstrate prudential standing as falling within the class of persons protected by Section 363.
New Mexico
August 19, 2025
Second Circuit barred offensive use of claim preclusion based on ‘fairness’ but hinted that offensive claim preclusion might never be permitted.
2nd Circuit
August 18, 2025
The opinion reads like an invitation for the Eleventh Circuit to sit en banc and reconsider circuit authority holding that a claims-processing deadline is not subject to equitable tolling.
11th Circuit
August 13, 2025
The pricey litigation funding agreement had not been disclosed to creditors before confirmation.
Texas Northern District
August 06, 2025
District judge was reluctant to have the bankruptcy court decide whether a suit removed to federal court should be remanded to the state trial court.
Connecticut
