January 14, 2025
Fifth Circuit didn’t permit plan proponents to structure a chapter 11 plan so that an appeal would be equitably moot.
January 13, 2025
The Fifth Circuit declines to adopt a securities industry guidebook for what’s a permissible financing.
August 16, 2024
Fifth Circuit says that the court must have obtained personal jurisdiction over a third party in a receivership to enforce an injunction. Is the same true for the automatic stay and the discharge injunction in bankruptcy? Is there no injunction before there’s personal jurisdiction?
April 9, 2024
The Fifth Circuit dissenter says that the majority set aside findings of fact without showing them to be clearly erroneous.
January 6, 2020
Assisting a debtor in effecting a fraudulent transfer with ‘actual intent’ isn’t enough to hold the transferee liable.
December 3, 2019
Fifth Circuit upholds its prior ruling that disallowing part of a claim under the Bankruptcy Code does not render the claim ‘impaired’ to allow voting on a chapter 11 plan.
January 23, 2019
Newly appointed circuit judge uses ancient English law to illuminate the Bankruptcy Code.