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Recoupment Survives the Discharge Injunction Permitting Dollar-for-Dollar Recovery on a Prepetition Debt

The Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel held that the Social Security Administration’s withholding of post-petition benefits to satisfy the debtor’s prepetition obligation to repay overpayments qualifies as recoupment...more

Time Approach Applied to Cap Rent Claim in Century 21 Bankruptcy Cases

New York bankruptcy court breaks with precedent and endorses time approach for calculating lease termination damages over rent amount approach, resulting in smaller claims for landlords. Time approach limits, and often...more

Landmark Ninth Circuit Decision on Post-Petition Interest for Unimpaired Creditors of a Solvent Chapter 11 Debtor

The Ninth Circuit became the first circuit-level court to address the correct rate of interest for unimpaired, unsecured creditors of a solvent chapter 11 debtor. The Ninth Circuit held that the common law “solvent debtor...more

Post-Petition Payment for Pre-Petition Delivery of Goods under Section 503(b)(9) Does Not Reduce Creditor’s Subsequent New Value...

An Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision permits a creditor both to be paid in full under Bankruptcy Code section 503(b)(9) for goods delivered within 20 days before commencement of a bankruptcy case, and to use the...more

A Warning to Contract Counterparties: A Debtor Can Sell Your Fully Performed Contract Without Curing Defaults and Paying Your...

A decision by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals serves as a stark reminder that the sale (assignment) of a contract in bankruptcy does not always require full payment of the non-debtor counterparty’s claim. Debtors must...more

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