Dr. Phil Loses Trial Over His Media Startup’s Bankruptcy | The Hollywood Reporter - The case will proceed as a Chapter 7 liquidation after a U.S. bankruptcy judge rejected McGraw’s bid to keep it in Chapter 11....more
On September 25, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas overturned the Bankruptcy Court's confirmation of ConvergeOne's chapter 11 plan for violating the Bankruptcy Code’s “equal-treatment” rule. ...more
U.S. Bankruptcy and appellate courts have long wrangled over whether the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code apply extraterritorially to permit, for example, enforcement of the automatic stay to creditor collection efforts...more
If a debtor can pay all the money it promised to pay, should it be required to do so, notwithstanding having filed for bankruptcy? Three federal courts of appeals have all said yes, but there was a dissent in each case, and...more
A recent decision by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the “Bankruptcy Court”), in the matter of In re AIO US, Inc., case no. 24-11836-CTG (“Avon”), created a split with the Fifth Circuit on the...more
The Fifth Circuit has confirmed the old adage that liens “ride through” bankruptcy regardless of a discharge. Reversing a Texas bankruptcy court, the Circuit Court has held that a statutory privilege (a lien) against property...more
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit - On appeal, the Fourth Circuit affirmed a bankruptcy court’s denial of a motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Founded in 1927, Georgia-Pacific LLC is...more
Every three years on April 1, the dollar amounts in the Bankruptcy Code are adjusted to account for inflation. The April 1, 2025, increase will be approximately 13.2%, even larger than the nearly 11% increase three years ago....more
The court-fashioned doctrine of "equitable mootness" has frequently been applied to bar appeals of bankruptcy court orders under circumstances where reversal or modification of an order could jeopardize, for example, the...more
Federal appellate courts have traditionally applied a "person aggrieved" standard to determine whether a party has standing to appeal a bankruptcy court order or judgment. However, this standard, which requires a direct,...more
In its 1997 decision Cortez v. Vogt, the California Court of Appeal ruled that the limitations period during which an action to avoid a fraudulent or voidable transfer begins to run either on the date of the transfer or on...more
In a previous blog post from June 2022, we discussed the Tenth Circuit’s post-Sigel decision in John Q. Hammons Fall 2006 LLC v. U.S. Trustee (In re John Q. Hammons Fall 2006 LLC), 15 F.4th 1011 (10th Cir. Oct. 5, 2021),...more
Regulatory obligations often conflict with bankruptcy law. It has long been considered a necessary benefit that people get a fresh start through bankruptcy. The law provides for exceptions to this principle, on the basis of...more
At stake in a recent decision by the First Circuit was this: when a bankruptcy matter is before a federal district court based on non-core, “related to” jurisdiction, should the court apply the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy...more
The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (“BAP”) for the First Circuit recently upheld a licensee’s rights to use a debtor’s trademarks and logo after a rejection by the debtor of the underlying licensing and distribution agreement....more
The United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Sixth Circuit recently clarified whether a trustee could rely upon 11 U.S.C. § 542, and in the process side-step 11 U.S.C. § 549, to recover an unauthorized post-petition...more