Rochelle's Daily Wire

A chapter 11 debtor may be saddled with smaller WARN Act claims by imposing mass layoffs after filing.

After conversion, the debtor was entitled to prosecute an appeal at the debtor’s expense when the appeal involved the debtor’s personal liability.

Good faith and attention to detail should enable a failing business to avoid WARN Act liability.

District judge decides that an individual debtor has standing to appeal conversion from Subchapter V of chapter 11 to chapter 7.

Judge Dale Somers adopted a ‘liberal’ construction of Section 1107(b) to retain a professional person who had been an officer of the debtor.

Bankruptcy Judges Wiles in New York decided that insiders were not entitled to releases under Section 503(c), but not for the reasons contained in Purdue.

Is Segal v. Rochelle good law following the adoption of the Bankruptcy Code?

A district judge, who had been a bankruptcy and BAP judge, narrowly interpreted 28 U.S.C. § 1412 as being inapplicable to pending suits only “related to” the bankruptcy.

Neither a sale ‘free and clear’ nor rejection of a union contract bars enforcement of NLRA successorship obligations, Delaware district judge rules in reversing the bankruptcy court.

Times are a-changin’ when it comes to setoff against exempt assets.