reorganization-plan

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-490 Lujan Claimants v. Boy Scouts of America, et al. Third Circuit 2025-10-21 Denied Amici (2) asset-sale bankruptcy-code equitable-mootness nonconsensual-release reorganization-plan third-party-release 1. Whether 11 U.S.C. §363(m) applies to asset sales under reorganization plans —and if so, whether §363(m) immunizes Purdue-forbidden releases. 2. Wh…
24A706 The Hertz Corporation, et al. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Indenture Trustee, et al. Third Circuit 2025-01-17 Presumed Complete absolute-priority-rule bankruptcy-code creditor-claims reorganization-plan solvent-debtor unmatured-interest Whether the pre-Bankruptcy Code absolute priority rule supersedes the unambiguous text of the Bankruptcy Code and requires a solvent debtor to pay its…
22-669 NexPoint Advisors, L.P., et al. v. Highland Capital Management, L.P., et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-01-20 Denied CVSGResponse RequestedRelisted (5) bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-reorganization bankruptcy-trustees business-liabilities common-law-immunity gross-negligence post-bankruptcy-liabilities reorganization-plan third-party-exculpation third-party-liability Section 524(e) of the Bankruptcy Code provides that the "discharge of a debt of the debtor does not affect the liability of any other entity on, or th…
22-631 Highland Capital Management, L.P. v. NexPoint Advisors, L.P., et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied CVSGResponse RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court chapter-11 circuit-split debt-discharge discharge reorganization-plan statutory-interpretation third-party-liability third-party-releases Section 524(e) of the Bankruptcy Code states that the "discharge of a debt of the debtor does not affect the liability of any other entity on, or the …
21-17 David Hargreaves v. Nuverra Environmental Solutions, Inc., aka Heckmann Corporation, aka Rough Rider Escrow, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abstention-doctrine article-three-jurisdiction bankruptcy bankruptcy-law case-jurisdiction equitable-mootness federal-courts judicial-abstention jurisdiction reorganization-plan Several courts of appeals have adopted a new abstention doctrine—called "equitable mootness"—under which Article III courts decline to exercise jurisd…