VACATING bankruptcy court’s order and REMANDING for further proceedings, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that 11 U.S.C. § 109(a) applies to the debtor in a foreign main...
Judge(s):
Jacobs, Straub (Circuit Judges), and Kuntz (District Judge sitting by designation)
Affirming District Court's judgment, dismissing Appellants' appeal from the Bankruptcy Court's order for lack of jurisdiction on the basis that the Bankruptcy Court's order was interlocutory rather...
Summarized by Eduardo Glas , Law Office of Eduardo Glas PC
12 years 4 months ago
Citation:
Docket No. 12-4138
Ruling:
Second Circuit certified the following question of law for the N.Y. Court of Appeals: does New York law treat a dissolved law firm's pending hourly fee matters as its property?
In re Lyondell Chemical Co. --- Fed.Appx. ----, 2013 WL 5733196 C.A.2 (N.Y.),2013.
Ruling:
This Summary Order’s terms render it of no precedential value. Nevertheless, all information is instructive.
The Summary Order adopted the District Court’s decision which denied a purchaser...
Judge(s):
ROSEMARY S. POOLER,
GERARD E. LYNCH,
CHRISTOPHER F. DRONEY,
Summarized by Joel Levitin , Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
12 years 6 months ago
Citation:
Case No. 12-4356-bk (2d Cir. September 17, 2013)
Ruling:
By Summary Order (with no precedential effect), the Court of Appeals affirmed the judgments of the lower courts. With respect to the dismissal of the fraud claim, the Court of Appeals held that...
Judge(s):
Reena Raggi, Gerard E. Lynch, Raymond j. Lohier, Jr., Circuit Judges
Summarized by Manuel Arreaza , Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
12 years 6 months ago
Citation:
In re AMR Corp., No. 13-1204, 2013 WL 4840474 (3d Cir. Sept. 12, 2013).
Ruling:
The panel for the Second Circuit denied U.S. Bank’s appeal from bankruptcy court decisions authorizing Debtors AMR and American Airlines to obtain postpetition financing and to repay certain...
Keough v. 217 Canner Associates, LLC (In the Matter of Greenwich Sentry, L.P.), 13-0193-cv Summary Order (2d Cir. 2013)
Ruling:
AFFIRMATION by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals of the District Court's affirmation of a bankruptcy court decision and order denying a motion seeking confirmation that Appellants are holders of...
Internal Revenue Service v. WorldCom, Inc. (In re WorldCom, Inc.), Second Circuit Court of Appeals Case No. 12-803
Ruling:
In reversing and remanding District Court's affirmance of Bankruptcy Court's granting of Debtors' objection to IRS's proof of claim and Debtors' motion for refund of previously paid taxes, Second...
Judge(s):
A.Kearse, R. Katzmann and J.Rakoff (District Judge sitting by designation)
AFFIRMING the District Court, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that certain payments made by a debtor subsidiary to noteholders in exchange for private placement notes issued by a debtor...
Judge(s):
Circuit Judges Chin and Lohier; District Judge Swain (sitting by designation)
