May 18, 2020
Fourth Circuit answered a question of first impression where the lower courts disagreed.
4th Circuit
May 12, 2020
Global warming claims were discharged even though the chapter 11 plan did not discharge claims under environmental laws.
8th Circuit
March 27, 2020
Environmental fines are discharged in chapter 11 because they do not result from pecuniary loss.
3rd Circuit, Delaware
March 25, 2020
The Supreme Court uses a copyright case to explain why the bankruptcy exception to states’ sovereign immunity is unique under the Constitution.
Supreme Court
March 10, 2020
The exaction for failure to purchase health insurance isn’t an excise tax ‘on a transaction’ under Section 507(a)(8)(E)(i).
5th Circuit
March 09, 2020
Pending adversary proceedings don’t preclude a finding that the chapter 11 case has been ‘fully administered,’ thus allowing entry of a final decree and cutting off further fees owing to the U.S. Trustee Program.
2nd Circuit, Connecticut
March 05, 2020
Sovereign immunity won’t prevent the bankruptcy court from extinguishing a state’s easement over a debtor’s property.
5th Circuit
February 25, 2020
High court rules that federal courts may make federal common law only to protect ‘uniquely’ federal interests.
Supreme Court
January 23, 2020
Courts are divided on whether the district court loses jurisdiction to stay proceedings in bankruptcy court after the filing of a notice of appeal.
3rd Circuit, Delaware
