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December 18, 2024

District court equates distribution to creditors in chapter 13 to substantial consummation of a chapter 11 plan.

December 13, 2024

Prominent news organizations failed to overturn the redaction of customer information in a big cryptocurrency case.

December 12, 2024

A foreign liquidator, who ran into problems in the Third Circuit using common law, changed course and quickly obtained relief in chapter 15.

December 10, 2024

A magistrate judge decided that a bankruptcy court’s order from another district halting suits against nondebtors was unenforceable because it was not an ‘injunction’ made under Section 105(a).

December 5, 2024

Most justices seemed inclined to believe that the waiver of sovereign immunity in Section 106(a) does not abrogate the “actual creditor” requirement in Section 544(b)(1).

December 3, 2024

The same district judge who correctly predicted that Purdue’s nonconsensual releases were prohibited has nonetheless upheld a preliminary injunction barring suits against nondebtors.

December 2, 2024

The definition of ‘small business’ uses the word ‘activities,’ not ‘operations,’ making nonoperating small business eligible for Subchapter V.

November 12, 2024

When a trustee mistakenly seizes a nondebtor’s property, the Barton doctrine by itself doesn’t protect the trustee, but judicial immunity does.

November 7, 2024

A district court in Houston denied a motion to dismiss a confirmation appeal as equitably moot, although reversal might alter ownership of the reorganized debtor.

November 6, 2024

To defeat motions to dismiss, preference and fraudulent transfer complaints need not contain all the information to be learned in discovery, Bankruptcy Judge Craig Goldblatt says.