The Court of Appeals concluded that the bankruptcy court's determination of the value of a bitcoin mining property was not clearly erroneous. Specifically, the Court of Appeals found that the...
Judge(s):
WILLIAM PRYOR, Chief Judge, and JILL PRYOR, and BRASHER, Circuit Judges
When a confirmed Chapter 11 plan includes provisions protecting third parties from certain claims, the bankruptcy court has statutory, core jurisdiction over a complaint against the protected...
A bankruptcy court cannot award an involuntary debtor relief under 11 U.S.C. § 303(i) against a State merely because it was a petitioning creditor. First, a State does not waive its Eleventh...
Judge(s):
Rawlinson, Melloy (8th Circuit, sitting by designation), and Thomas
Dismissal of an involuntary bankruptcy petition under the abstention statute, 11 U.S.C. § 305(a), does not deprive the debtor of its rights to seek fees and damages under 11 U.S.C. § 303(i), and...
Section 1334(d) of title 28 of the United States Code establishes that a Circuit Court of Appeals does not have jurisdiction to review a bankruptcy court's permissive abstention from hearing a...
A debtor is ineligible for bankruptcy in the Third Circuit if it cannot show that it is in financial distress. A debtor's mere forecast of blockbuster verdicts against it, or the "attenuated"...
The Fifth Circuit certified to the Mississippi Supreme Court the narrow issue of whether the Mississippi champerty statute (Miss. Code Ann. § 97-9-11) voids the assignment of a cause of action...
Title VI of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act does not alter the legal standard, found in both New York and Puerto Rico law, that the terms of a final contract...
Res judicata applies to a chapter 13 plan that is later properly modified so that creditors cannot appeal previously determined matters that were not altered by the modified plan. Thus, res...
In a split opinion (Chief Judge Pryor, dissenting) -- in which both the majority and the dissent focused on the meaning of the word "is" -- the Eleventh Circuit held that 11 U.S.C. § 1125(a)(3)...
Judge(s):
WILLIAM PRYOR, Chief Judge, and LUCK and ED CARNES, Cir-cuit Judges
