A creditor can’t assert a cure claim, even though Section 365(b) doesn’t give the counterparty the sole right to demand a cure on assumption of an executory contract.

After Taggart v. Lorenzen, plans, orders and injunctions must be highly specific to hold an offending creditor in contempt.

Circuit Judge Loken predicts the Supreme Court will abolish equitable mootness if the lower courts don’t cut back and start reviewing the merits of confirmed chapter 11 plans.

‘Cert’ petitions presenting two bankruptcy issues worthy of review by the Supreme Court will be considered by the justices at the ‘long conference’ on September 27.

Fifth Circuit rejects technical arguments aimed at skirting Section 363(m) and statutory mootness of a sale order.

The $13,650 cap on priority claims for each employee under an ‘employee benefit plan’ applies to each benefit plan, not to all of an employer’s benefit plans added together, the Seventh Circuit says.

Critical vendor status is a defense to a preference claim only when the defendant was specifically named in an order, stipulation or agreement requiring full payment of the creditor’s prepetition claim, Judge Dorsey says.

The bankruptcy community needs a better definition of what’s an executory contract, and Prof. Jay Westbrook has it.

Judge Hoffman sets up Sixth Circuit to opine on the circuit split regarding the constitutionality of the 2018 increase in fees for the U.S. Trustee system.

Actual notice is required even for contingent liabilities not shown on financial statements, the Sixth Circuit holds.