March 07, 2025
The Third Circuit upheld Bankruptcy Judge Goldblatt of Delaware where the answer was self-evident but there was no controlling authority.
3rd Circuit
February 19, 2025
The ‘probate exception’ to federal subject matter jurisdiction does not prevent bankruptcy courts from basing decisions on state trusts and estates law, except in limited circumstances.
6th Circuit
February 13, 2025
In transferring venue of a related case under Rule 1014(b), the bankruptcy court can move sua sponte and need not await a venue motion by a creditor or party in interest.
9th Circuit, California, California Eastern District
February 11, 2025
Fancy drafting by ‘brilliant financiers and lawyers,’ the judge said, didn’t validate an uptier transaction when the ‘effect’ was to release collateral without a two-thirds vote.
5th Circuit, Texas, Texas Southern District
February 06, 2025
Delaware judge wouldn’t allow a chapter 11 debtor to restructure the same secured debt a second time in a different venue.
3rd Circuit, Delaware
January 16, 2025
A receiver was tagged $45,000 for failing to turn over estate property by demanding payment of administrative fees.
5th Circuit
January 14, 2025
Fifth Circuit didn’t permit plan proponents to structure a chapter 11 plan so that an appeal would be equitably moot.
5th Circuit
January 13, 2025
The Fifth Circuit declines to adopt a securities industry guidebook for what’s a permissible financing.
5th Circuit
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.
2nd Circuit, New York
