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January 10, 2025

A district judge in Ohio declined to sit as an appellate court by deciding whether a bankruptcy court in another state had properly ‘spread’ the automatic stay.

January 09, 2025

A corporate debtor with no income and no operating business could convert an involuntary chapter 7 case to Subchapter V of chapter 11.

December 20, 2024

A Delaware bankruptcy judge says there could be circumstances when automatic stays will not be enforced after the court has denied a motion to compel arbitration.

December 19, 2024

Like she did in Purdue, District Judge Colleen McMahon correctly predicted how the higher court would rule in a big, important case.

December 18, 2024

District court equates distribution to creditors in chapter 13 to substantial consummation of a chapter 11 plan.

December 13, 2024

Prominent news organizations failed to overturn the redaction of customer information in a big cryptocurrency case.

December 12, 2024

A foreign liquidator, who ran into problems in the Third Circuit using common law, changed course and quickly obtained relief in chapter 15.

December 10, 2024

A magistrate judge decided that a bankruptcy court’s order from another district halting suits against nondebtors was unenforceable because it was not an ‘injunction’ made under Section 105(a).

December 05, 2024

Most justices seemed inclined to believe that the waiver of sovereign immunity in Section 106(a) does not abrogate the “actual creditor” requirement in Section 544(b)(1).

December 03, 2024

The same district judge who correctly predicted that Purdue’s nonconsensual releases were prohibited has nonetheless upheld a preliminary injunction barring suits against nondebtors.