Judges’ Roundtables (2025 Central States Bankruptcy Workshop)
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Opposing Relief, a Creditor Isn’t Required to Show Constitutional Standing
Delaware’s Bankruptcy Judge Goldblatt explains why the Supreme Court’s Truck Insurance opinion says nothing about Article III constitutional standing.
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Consensual Releases Post-Purdue
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Second Circuit Updates with Bill Rochelle
Benchnotes July 2025
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Third Circuit Upholds Boy Scouts’ Nonconsensual Releases, Purdue Notwithstanding
The Third Circuit majority upheld nondebtor, nonconsensual releases because they were part of a sale, making the appeal statutorily moot under Section 363(m).
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On Remand from the Supreme Court in Truck Ins., Fourth Circuit Upholds Confirmation
Fourth Circuit says there’s nothing in the Bankruptcy Code requiring ‘anti-fraud’ provisions in a mass tort chapter 11 plan. The appeals court also holds that an ‘asbestos’ plan isn’t filed in bad faith when the plan gives an insurer no more rights than the insurer has under its policy.
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Sex Abuse Victims to Have a Private Conference with the Judge and the Catholic Bishop
Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein said it was ‘nonsense’ to argue that ‘a Bankruptcy Court lacks authority to permit survivor statements to be made to the Court and to the Bishop.’