Automatic Stay

As to Appealing Insurers, the Boy Scouts Plan Was Not Equitably Moot

Holding $1.4 billion in escrow did not preclude invocation of equitable mootness, Third Circuit majority says.

July 2025

Third Circuit Upholds Boy Scouts’ Nonconsensual Releases, Purdue Notwithstanding

The Third Circuit majority upheld nondebtor, nonconsensual releases because they were part of a sale, making the appeal statutorily moot under Section 363(m).

The ‘Domestic Violence’ Stay Exception Applies to Sexual Violence Decades Earlier

Bankruptcy Judge Robert Mark held that the Section 362(b)(2)(A)(v) exception to the automatic stay covers more than imminent or ongoing sexual abuse.

Applying Section 362(a)(3) to the Debtor: A Square Peg in a Round Hole

Winter

2025

Bill Rochelle’s Top 10 Daily Wires

Bankruptcy Wage Orders - Employers & Trustees, Working Together Employers often receive the wage orders when an employee files for bankruptcy. For the employer, it can be complex and challenging to understand all the various requirements in processing the automatic stay, implementing the wage withholding and sending the payments on to the Trustee's. In this session, you will hear insight, challenges and best practices when processing wage orders from employers and Trustees. Working together and open communication is key to a successful process. Participants will better understand the challenges employers face in implementing wage orders. The relationship between the trustee and the employer are critical to ensuring the process is accurate and efficient. Creditor Suggested Speakers Corrinne Flores corrinne.flores@adp.com ADP, INC (employer service provider)

Third J&J Filing Dismissed on Grounds Different from the First Two Dismissals

Houston’s Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez decided that the newest plan by a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary didn’t qualify for nondebtor releases permissible in asbestos cases.

A Contempt Sanction Is Not a ‘Money Judgment’ and Doesn’t Require Writ of Execution

A contempt sanction upholds the integrity of the court and doesn’t invoke Rule 69(a).

Bankruptcy Judge Upheld: No Arbitration on Claims for Violating the Automatic Stay

Bankruptcy Judge Paul Black was affirmed in district court for holding that arbitration of claims for violating the automatic stay would conflict with the centrality of administration in bankruptcy cases.