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… |