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Fifth Circuit Explains When There Is No Double Recovery from Avoiding a Lien

Circuit Judge Edith Jones explains that the word ‘or’ in Section 550(a) doesn’t mean ‘and.’

5th Circuit

Consent Is an Exception to Jevic’s Insistence on Respecting Priorities in Distribution

Consent from administrative creditors provided grounds for approving DIP financing and a sale when the estate was administratively insolvent.

11th Circuit
Florida
Florida Southern District

Subchapter V Might Not Be So Bad: Subchapter V Tools from a Secured Creditor’s Perspective

July 2025

Bankruptcy Code
1191
Topic Tags
Administrative Expense Claims
Claims
Plan Confirmation
Valuation

Two Courts Hold: Injunctions Are Ok to Protect Nondebtors for the Life of a Plan

Judge Meredith Grabill of New Orleans agreed with New York’s Judge Mastando that a Subchapter V plan can enjoin lawsuits against nondebtors for the life of a three-year plan.

5th Circuit
Louisiana
Louisiana Eastern District

Section 506(c): An Underutilized Mechanism Benefiting Debtors

Aug 2025

Bankruptcy Code
11 U.S.C. § 506(c)
Topic Tags
Asset Sales
Claims

Segal v. Rochelle May Remain Good Law Only in Limited Circumstances

The elaborate definition of ‘estate property’ in Section 541(a) may have superseded the 1966 ‘sufficiently rooted’ analysis in Segal.

11th Circuit
Georgia
Georgia Southern District

Benchnotes July 2025

July 2025

Bankruptcy Code
523(a)(6)
11 U.S.C. § 363(m)
329
522
1129
1326
Topic Tags
Asset Sales
Claims
Fraud
Plan Confirmation
Discharge/Dischargeability
Mass Torts

The Legal Treatment of Merchant Cash Advances

Aug 2025

Bankruptcy Code
11 U.S.C. § 506
541
Topic Tags
Claims
Finance and Banking
Uniform Commercial Code/Article 9

Enforceability of Pre-Petition Agreements in Bankruptcy

July 2025

Bankruptcy Code
11 U.S.C. § 362
523
Topic Tags
Automatic Stay
Claims
Bankruptcy Litigation
Fraud
Discharge/Dischargeability

Second Circuit Chooses the Billing-Date Approach for Post-Petition Rent

July 2025

Bankruptcy Code
11 U.S.C. § 365
Topic Tags
Claims
Bankruptcy Litigation
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