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August 3, 2023

Bound by the Third Circuit’s first LTL decision, the bankruptcy court found that LTL’s rejiggered second filing suffered from the same defect: no immediate financial distress.

August 1, 2023

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.
The court’s ability to compel trial testimony by video doesn’t eradicate the 100-mile limitation on issuance of trial subpoenas.

July 31, 2023

With claims for abuse of process not available in a bankruptcy case, the offended party must pursue contempt or other sanctions created by the Bankruptcy Code, a California district judge says.

July 27, 2023

Future liability on a lease was counted as a liquidated, noncontingent debt in calculating whether the Subchapter V debtor had more than $7.5 million in debt.

July 25, 2023

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

July 24, 2023

The Fifth Circuit declined to follow the Ninth Circuit in questioning ‘person aggrieved’ as being inconsistent with recent Supreme Court authority.

July 17, 2023

A repeat filer in chapter 13 must show ‘clear and convincing evidence’ of improved financial condition to warrant an extension of the automatic stay under Section 362(c)(3)(B), Chief Judge Taddonio says.

July 13, 2023

The Third Circuit lauded Bankruptcy Judge Craig Goldblatt for a ‘well-reasoned’ opinion correctly interpreting Supreme Court authority.

July 12, 2023

Bankruptcy Judge Klinette H. Kindred declined to expand Bartenwerfer by imputing fraud or larceny when the debtor wasn’t a partner or agent.