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Bankruptcy courts can have subject matter jurisdiction to approve settlements between nondebtors.

Rebuffed in the Second Circuit, the Solicitor General is asking the Supreme Court to stay issuance of the mandate that would allow Purdue Pharma to consummate its chapter 11 plan.

Section 959(a) doesn’t permit suing a trustee for breach of fiduciary duty outside of bankruptcy court.

In a motion to stay the issuance of the mandate, the government has announced that it will be filing a petition for certiorari asking the Supreme Court to review the Second Circuit’s Purdue decision allowing bankruptcy courts to issue releases to nondebtors.

In a rising real estate market, chapter 13 debtors risk losing their homes if they sell or convert to chapter 7.

An appeal from an interlocutory order can’t be made final by the district court’s entry of judgment on the first appeal.

Eighteenth century ‘history and tradition’ might govern the constitutionality of real estate tax foreclosures where the government retains sale proceeds in excess of unpaid taxes.

It appears as though the Supreme Court will decide Lac du Flambeau based entirely on textual analysis of Section 106(a), which does not explicitly abrogate sovereign immunity as to Native American tribes.

The ‘possibility of harm’ won’t confer bankruptcy appellate standing, the Fifth Circuit says.

The majority and the dissenter disagreed on whether the judgment merged individual creditors’ claims into one claim.