Business Reorganization

Faculty Biographies (2025 Annual Spring Meeting)

Bill Rochelle’s Top 10 Daily Wires

Unjust Debts: A Candid Conversation About the Bankruptcy System, Ethics and Paths to Reform

Bad Debtors and Vexatious Litigants: How the Code, the Rules and the Courts Can and Can’t Help

BAPCPA Turns 20

Section 107 Governs Sealing of Court Documents, Not Common Law, Third Circuit Says

Section 107 more broadly protects trade secrets and confidential information than does common law.

To Dismiss for ‘Loss or Diminution,’ the Focus Is on Losses After Filing, BAP Says

Losses before filing or during prior aborted reorganizations do not control dismissal of a new reorganization for ‘continuing loss or diminution,’ First Circuit BAP says.

Nondebtor Releases Are Still Permissible in Chapter 15, Delaware Judge Says

Foreign reorganizations with nondebtor releases are not ‘manifestly contrary’ to public policy after Purdue, according to Delaware’s Bankruptcy Judge Thomas Horan.

In Sub V, No Compensation for a Rehearing Motion Contrary to Circuit Authority

After the court had denied contract assumption, there was no compensation for keeping assumption alive pending appeal.

Plan Confirmation Denied for Too Little Post-Confirmation Supervision by the Court

Bankruptcy Judge Littlefield insisted on supervision of post-confirmation legal fees when there was to be a ‘litany of litigation’ after confirmation.