business Cases
March 15, 2018
Courts are split on aggregating filed and non-filed claims in calculating chapter 12 eligibility.
March 12, 2018
9th Circuit , Montana ,
Montana judge cuts committee counsel’s interim allowance to rates charged by debtor’s counsel.
March 7, 2018
Jewel has now been formally rejected in New York and California. Washington, D.C. is next.
March 5, 2018
Yet another example of how hard cases make bad law.
March 5, 2018
Some justices are critical of the existing test for ruling on non-statutory insider status.
February 28, 2018
3rd Circuit , Delaware ,
An asset purchaser cannot escape liability for appropriating the benefits of a contract that was not assumed and assigned.
February 27, 2018
Intermediate transfers to financial institutions do not trigger the safe harbor.
February 26, 2018
Ninth Circuit reverses its own precedent and eliminates a circuit split by favoring farmers.
February 23, 2018
The Fourth Circuit and a Delaware bankruptcy judge reach opposite conclusions on motions to dismiss petitions by solvent debtors.
February 22, 2018
3rd Circuit , Delaware ,
Consumer protection claims brought by states are nondischargeable in chapter 11 only when the state has been the target of fraudulent representations.