Patent Infringement: Successful Litigation Stays the "Course"
A chapter 7 trustee-lessee’s failure to comply with postpetition, pre-rejection lease obligations does not automatically give the landlord an administrative expense claim, as some courts fashion alternative remedies on a...more
The Fifth Circuit affirmed judgments confirming an arbitration award despite concluding that the lower courts should have considered one of the party’s claims that a dispute decided by the arbitrator was beyond the scope of...more
In a recent appeal directly to the Fifth Circuit from a Southern District of Texas Bankruptcy Court, the court affirmed the bankruptcy court’s denial of a motion to compel arbitration. In Henry v. Educational Financial...more
The Eastern District of Pennsylvania recently granted a creditor’s request to compel arbitration over a plaintiff’s argument that the arbitration agreement he had signed was void as a result of a bankruptcy court discharging...more
A recent decision out of the federal district court in Nevada, BOKF, NA v. Estes D. Nev. March 2, 2018), addressed the interesting question of whether an indenture trustee for municipal bonds could be compelled to arbitrate...more
On September 6, 2017, the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York issued the latest order in the ongoing coverage battle between MF Global Holdings (“MF Global”) and Allied World Assurance Company regarding the...more
In the most recent decision in an ongoing dispute between MF Global Holdings Ltd. and its (re)insurers, the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York ordered Allied World to post a $15 million bond before the...more
This appeal is from an order by a district court in California, affirming a bankruptcy court’s denial of a motion to compel arbitration in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee’s adversary proceeding, in which the trustee sought...more