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Delaware district judge rules that the bankruptcy court has final adjudicatory power to include third-party releases in confirmation orders.

Judge Flatley avoids taking sides in the Second/Third Circuit split.

Judge Barnes won’t allow a chapter 13 debtor’s counsel to be paid at the expense of secured creditors.

‘Value’ doesn’t mean ‘present value’ in Section 1325(b)(1)(A), Judge Lorch says.

Bankruptcy judge says a chapter 13 debtor receives ‘several benefits’ from paying 8% in commissions on mortgage payments through the trustee.

Fourth Circuit disposes of a high-stakes appeal without oral argument in a terse, per curiam opinion incorporating the ‘reasons stated by the district court.’

Narrow reading of ‘equitable mootness’ in Tribune is limited to cases involving a dispute between two classes.