Skip to main content
Help Center

July 7 - Members and Subscribers - Welcome to the new and improved abi.org! - If you have not already done so, please reset your ABI password to access the site. Click "Login" and then "Forgot Password"

ABI Journal

2nd Circuit

Connecticut Judge Takes Sides in a Circuit Split on Trademark License Rejection

A ‘cert’ petition is in the works to resolve the circuit split from Lubrizol regarding the rejection of trademark licenses.

2nd Circuit
Connecticut

Claims Located in the U.S. Make a Foreign Debtor Eligible for Chapter 15

The Second Circuit’s Barnet opinion on Section 109(a)’s requirement of property in the U.S. is satisfied by claims located in the U.S.

2nd Circuit
New York
New York Southern District

Chapter 15 Allows Discovery Not Available under Foreign Law, New York Judge Says

Bankruptcy Judge Shelley C. Chapman skirts an arbitration agreement to allow discovery.

2nd Circuit
New York
New York Southern District

Non-Consensual Third-Party Releases Pass Muster in Chapter 15

Principles of comity justify enforcing a U.K. scheme of arrangement that releases non-filed affiliates’ guarantees.

2nd Circuit
New York
New York Southern District

Debtor Successfully Claims an Exemption 19 Years after Discharge

Law v. Siegel allows exempting an asset that had not been scheduled.

2nd Circuit
New York
New York Western District

Structured Finance Protects Tuition Payments from Fraudulent Transfer Suits

Children were the initial transferees of tuition payments, thus giving schools the ‘good faith’ defense to fraudulent transfers.

2nd Circuit
New York
New York Eastern District

Not a ‘Mechanical Rule,’ Judicial Estoppel Requires Benefit, Second Circuit Says

Judicial estoppel requires ‘an effort to game the bankruptcy system.’

2nd Circuit

District Court Endorses Opt-Out to Confirm Substantive Consolidation Plans

Augie/Restivo problems are avoided by including opt-out provisions in a substantive consolidation chapter 11 plan.

2nd Circuit
New York
New York Southern District

Madoff Opinions Ease Pleading Requirements in Suits Against Subsequent Transferees

Bankruptcy Judge Vyskocil holds that alter ego need not be alleged to recover from a corporation’s sole shareholder as the beneficiary of a fraudulent transfer.

2nd Circuit
New York
New York Southern District

SIPA Bars General Unsecured Claims for Failure to Transfer Accounts Before Filing

The trustee for a bankrupt broker can ignore an individual customer’s request to transfer securities to a solvent broker and may instead transfer customer accounts in bulk.

2nd Circuit
New York
New York Southern District
Subscribe to %1