Baker Botts

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,

Supreme Court

 (courtesy of Dave’s iPhone on June 18, 2015)

Two Thursdays ago, we visited my wife’s family in Potomac, Maryland. In addition to seeing the usual sites, we did a Supreme Court “drive-by” and snapped the above photo, a very timely now outdated, but still very political picture.

Indeed, Friday morning, the Supreme Court issued its 

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Bullard v. Blue Hills Bank and, in the process, likely resolved a Circuit split on an important bankruptcy confirmation issue: Is an order denying confirmation of a bankruptcy plan “final” and, thus, immediately appealable? Siding with the majority view, Chief Justice