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January 16, 2025

A receiver was tagged $45,000 for failing to turn over estate property by demanding payment of administrative fees.

January 14, 2025

Fifth Circuit didn’t permit plan proponents to structure a chapter 11 plan so that an appeal would be equitably moot.

January 13, 2025

The Fifth Circuit declines to adopt a securities industry guidebook for what’s a permissible financing.

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 16, 2024

Did the notion of ‘prudential standing’ in bankruptcy cases survive Truck Insurance?

November 25, 2024

Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane says that Delaware corporate law can’t prevent committees from having derivative standing.

November 22, 2024

At least in New York, proceedings on a confession of judgment are neither a ‘claim’ nor a ‘cause of action’ and can’t be removed under 28 U.S.C. § 1452(a).

November 12, 2024

When a trustee mistakenly seizes a nondebtor’s property, the Barton doctrine by itself doesn’t protect the trustee, but judicial immunity does.

November 08, 2024

A per curiam decision from the Seventh Circuit raises the question of whether Truck Insurance overruled ‘person aggrieved’ sub silentio.

November 07, 2024

A district court in Houston denied a motion to dismiss a confirmation appeal as equitably moot, although reversal might alter ownership of the reorganized debtor.