The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a bankruptcy court's order granting a motion to compel post-petition priority payment of $4.3M in brokers' fees under prepetition leases...
The U.S. Circuit Court for the First Circuit held (1) parties holding revenue bonds issued by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) have a non-recourse claim on PREPA's estate for the...
Claimants who failed to timely cash settlement checks from the Dow Corning Settlement Facility (Facility) are now barred from receiving payment by the district court order finalizing time for...
Judge(s):
Sutton, Chief Judge, and Readler, and Bloomkatz, Circuit Judges
Bankruptcy court did not err in converting chapter 13 case to chapter 7 where debtor consistently failed to comply with bankruptcy court orders and demonstrated bad faith, nor did the court violate...
The U.S. Circuit Court for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a bankruptcy court's rulings (a) dismissing a debtor's chapter 13 petition for bad faith under the circuit's "totality of the circumstances"...
Judge(s):
FLETCHER and JOHNSTONE, Circuit Judges, and RAKOFF, District Judge
Proceeds from embezzlement litigation was not collateral of a loan where the security agreement did not describe the litigation. Pennsylvania’s Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code ("UCC"),...
Avoidance under 11 U.S.C. § 724(a) of the portion of a tax lien for penalties does not alter the priority of the amount of the tax authority's unavoided lien claim against the proceeds of the...
Judge(s):
Susan P. Graber, Roopali H. Desai, and Ana de Alba, Circuit Judges
In a per curiam opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (Circuit) found no error in the decision of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (BC) denying relief from...
The Circuit Court affirmed the district court’s order affirming a judgment of the bankruptcy court, and remanded for further proceedings, in a fraudulent transfer action in which a jury...
Judge(s):
Richard R. Clifton, Gabriel P. Sanchez, and Edward R. Korman,
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held a bankruptcy court did not err in approving a Chapter 7 Trustee's settlement of legal claims filed by Appellants against the debtor and third...