After an unplanned, exactly one month hiatus, we’re back! This long overdue post comes to you from Point Clear, Alabama, the site of the 2016 11th Circuit Judicial Conference, an event that brings together all of the federal judges in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida (i.e., the U.S. Marshals’ least favorite project every 2 years). Lest
This will be a placeholder post for the Baker Botts, L.L.P. v. ASARCO, LLC timeline. On March 17, Delaware’s Judge Shannon formally adopted in his New Gulf Resources Chapter 11 case Judge Walrath’s Baker Botts opinion in Delaware’s Boomerang Tube Chapter 11 case. We’ve been covering Baker Botts and the fee-defense cost issue since June
(Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/The National Law Journal)
On Wednesday, President Obama nominated Merrick Garland, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, to fill Justice Antonin Scalia’s recently vacant seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. Although much has been written over the last 2 days about Judge Garland’s prior decisions,
Justice Antonin Scalia died on Saturday. He was 79. Politics aside, he was a legal giant on the world’s most powerful court. However, we’ll leave the tributes to those who knew Justice Scalia and those who make their careers studying the Supreme Court. Instead, we chose a more modest (but still demanding) purpose for
On Monday in the Samson Resources Corporation Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, Delaware’s Judge Sontchi adopted Judge Walrath’s recentBaker Botts opinion in Delaware’s Boomerang Tube Chapter 11 case regarding fee-defense costs after Baker Botts. As we discussed last week, Judge Walrath’s opinion interpreted the U.S. Supreme Court’s Baker Botts, L.L.P. v. ASARCO opinion,
(I’m told that these are “Boomerang Tubes”)
Back in September, we blogged about two pending Delaware bankruptcy cases regarding fee-defense costs after Baker Botts, L.L.P. v. ASARCO: In re Boomerang Tube, LLC, et al. and In re Northshore Mainland Services, Inc., et al. (a/k/a the Baha Mar case). In Baker Botts,
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We’d like to take a quick moment and plug shamelessly an article that I co-wrote with Richard Gaudet of HDH Advisors, LLC. Our firm does a lot of business with Richard and his group, and he was nice enough to ask
(As is my favorite New Year’s tradition, we’re in DC, but will watch it on TV!)
It’s that obligatory time of the year for “Year in Review” posts and the like. We’re also closing Plan Proponent’s inaugural year. Therefore, from my makeshift office at my in-laws’ home in Potomac, Maryland, here’s our “Best of
This will be a short Christmas post. We just couldn’t resist the urge to follow-up on our Thanksgiving filing figures by looking-up Christmas filings.
Like Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day is a popular day for bankruptcy filings, just not as popular as Thanksgiving. There were over 2 times more Thanksgiving filings than Christmas filings over the
(Kate B.’s “Turkey Art”) (2015)
Late yesterday afternoon, I advanced $1,167 to reopen a Chapter 11 case on the issue of a post-confirmation settlement dispute. The timing really didn’t occur to me until 1 of the 23 ECF recipients emailed me a “Happy Thanksgiving” but also kidded “A Thanksgiving eve filing? Doesn’t Ward ever let