Rochelle's Daily Wire

A firm wasn’t disqualified when attorneys who left the firm long ago had represented an adversary in a possibly similar engagement.

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

Bankruptcy Judge Robert Mark held that the Section 362(b)(2)(A)(v) exception to the automatic stay covers more than imminent or ongoing sexual abuse.

Bankruptcy Judge Scott Grossman adopted the analysis by Bankruptcy Judge Brian Walsh in concluding that creditors are entitled to notice of the claims bar date, not just notice of the filing.

A Sub V case was not of a ‘size or exceptional nature’ to justify a post-petition retainer when counsel could file interim fee applications.

The bankruptcy judge in Pensacola, Fla., is giving the Eleventh Circuit an opening to split with the Fourth and Fifth Circuits.

There are two tests again for the existence of a claim, one test for claims against the debtor and another for claims by the debtor.

A district court in Florida upheld Bankruptcy Judge Peter Russin in holding that substantive consolidation does not require an adversary proceeding, a summons or a complaint.

Disagreeing with two bankruptcy courts in Houston, Miami’s Judge Isicoff holds that a Sub V plan with a nonvoting class can be confirmed only as a nonconsensual plan.

Tort claims are usually unliquidated, but a contract claim is liquidated if it’s precisely determinable by agreement or operation of law, Judge Lori Vaughan says.