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July 07, 2025
Texas Says GM Can't Use Ch. 11 Sale To End Data Privacy Suit
The Texas attorney general is urging a New York bankruptcy court to reject General Motors' bid to escape a data privacy suit being pressed by his office over the automaker's allegedly unlawful collection and sale of drivers' private information, arguing that the court lacks jurisdiction over the agency and that the claims aren't barred by prior bankruptcy proceedings.
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July 07, 2025
Fresno Diocese Seeks Parish Account Protection In Ch. 11
The bankrupt Roman Catholic Bishop of Fresno told a California judge Monday that it would be providing additional evidentiary support for its cash management motion so that the bank accounts of its non-debtor parishes can be protected from closure.
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July 07, 2025
Texas Appeals Court Finds $50M Dubai Judgment Was Unfair
A Texas appeals court has found that a $50 million judgment issued by a United Arab Emirates court system against executives who allegedly fled the country after committing fraud could not stand under state law, saying the UAE court system never provided the executives adequate notice.
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July 07, 2025
Celsius Ends FTX Clawback Suit, Rite Aid Unit Sale OK'd
FTX's Bahamas unit and bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network reached a settlement resolving an adversary lawsuit seeking the return of around $517 million in pre-bankruptcy transfers. A New Jersey bankruptcy judge approved Rite Aid's roughly $19 million sale of an ice cream brand to a pair of billionaires behind Monster Energy. And insurers are challenging Avon's Chapter 11 plan, arguing it unfairly forces them to cover potentially invalid talc injury claims.
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July 07, 2025
AIG Pays $6M For Fire In Chinese Exile Guo's NYC Apartment
AIG Property Casualty Co. has paid more than $6 million to a company once owned by Chinese exile and since-convicted fraudster Miles Guo after a fire damaged his former residence in New York City's Sherry-Netherland Hotel, an exclusive co-op across the street from Central Park, a court filing indicates.
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July 07, 2025
Meet The Attorneys Guiding Del Monte In Its $1.2B Ch. 11
A team of attorneys from Cole Schotz PC and Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer are guiding packaged foods giant Del Monte through Chapter 11 as it hopes to find a buyer.
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July 07, 2025
Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court
In Delaware in the past week, a vice chancellor awarded just $1 in damages to a China-tied company looking to secure a $50 million stake in SpaceX while also slamming the fund's manager for acting "insincerely," Tyson Foods won $55 million in damages in a suit claiming the owner of two poultry rendering plants Tyson acquired hid that it relied on a "disfavored" practice of recovering "unappetizing remnants of butchered chickens," and a suit over a one-site bank's 11-aircraft fleet was moved into the discovery phase.
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July 07, 2025
Steward Health Reaches $15.5M Deal With Fla. Hospital Buyer
Hospital operator Steward Health Care told a Texas bankruptcy judge Monday it had reached a deal with the buyer of eight of its hospitals to resolve claims over $55 million in disputed Medicaid payments, with Steward expected to recoup $15.5 million as part of the agreement.
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July 07, 2025
Lindberg Victims May See $318M Restitution From Asset Sale
The special master who is untangling convicted billionaire Greg Lindberg's web of companies wants to dole out roughly $318 million in restitution from the sale of one of the mogul's most valuable assets to the insurance companies he is accused of defrauding, court records show.
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July 03, 2025
Avianca Asks Justices To Resolve Ch. 11 Lease Obligations
South America's second-largest airline Avianca on Thursday took a fight stemming from its 2020 bankruptcy to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices to resolve a circuit split over the question of when a Chapter 11 debtor's lease obligations arise.
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July 03, 2025
Bankruptcy Judge Lets Del. Court Take Invitae Contract Fight
A New Jersey bankruptcy judge has abstained from ruling on a motion to dismiss an adversary lawsuit brought by genetic testing company Natera against bankrupt competitor Invitae over a 2024 asset purchase, saying that Delaware's Chancery Court is the preferred venue for deciding the dispute given parallel litigation pending there.
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July 03, 2025
Steward's Ch. 11 Plan Faces Mounting Opposition
Objections to hospital operator Steward Healthcare's Chapter 11 plan piled up, as parties including Humana Insurance Co. and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts Inc. opposed its injunction provisions.
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July 03, 2025
What's Happening In Bankruptcy Court This Coming Week
Coming out of the July Fourth long weekend, bankruptcy judges will consider debtor-in-possession financing requests by solar company Sunnova and fiber developer Tilson, a dispute over trucking firm Yellow Corp.'s Chapter 11 progress, and first-day relief for the Catholic Diocese of Fresno, California.
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July 03, 2025
Circuit-By-Circuit Recap: Justices Send Message To Outliers
It was a tough term at the U.S. Supreme Court for two very different circuits — one solidly liberal, one solidly conservative — that had their rulings overturned in eye-popping numbers. But it was another impressive year for a relatively moderate circuit that appears increasingly simpatico with the high court.
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July 03, 2025
Boy Scouts Of America Distributed $164M To Claimants So Far
Boy Scouts of America has so far transferred nearly $164 million to sexual abuse survivors, according to a monthly report released by the organization's settlement trust.
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July 03, 2025
The Moments That Shaped The Universal Injunction Case
The U.S. Supreme Court voted along ideological lines when it hindered the ability of federal district court judges to issue nationwide pauses on presidential policies, but that outcome didn't seem like a foregone conclusion during oral arguments earlier this year. What do the colloquies suggest about the justices' thinking? Here are some moments that may have swayed them.
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July 03, 2025
Sunnova, Wolfspeed Top 2025 Bankruptcies: Midyear Report
Changes and uncertainty in U.S. federal policy have tipped major companies into bankruptcy this year, with residential solar company Sunnova, auto-parts maker Marelli and others blaming aggressive tariffs and shifting tax regulations for their recent financial troubles.
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July 03, 2025
FTX Seeks Claims Process For Countries With Crypto Bans
The estate of defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX has asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to approve procedures for handling distributions to claimants in 49 countries with laws or regulations that it said could restrict any crypto-related transactions.
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July 03, 2025
The Firms That Won Big At The Supreme Court
The number of law firms juggling three or more arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court this past term nearly doubled from the number of firms that could make that claim last term.
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July 03, 2025
Breaking Down The Vote: The High Court Term In Review
The U.S. Supreme Court once again waited until the term's closing weeks — and even hours — to issue some of its most anticipated and divided decisions.
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July 03, 2025
Richards Layton Leader Aims To Keep 'Culture Of Expertise'
As he prepared to take over as Richards Layton & Finger PA's president this week, Paul N. Heath told Law360 Pulse that he aims to ensure the firm maintains its place as a leader in Delaware's legal marketplace and that he builds on the work of his two immediate predecessors.
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July 02, 2025
Girardi Asks To Remain Free During Fraud Appeal
Disbarred attorney Tom Girardi asked a California federal judge on Wednesday to remain free on bond while he appeals his wire fraud conviction, saying he's not a flight risk or danger to the community and there are several issues on appeal that could result in reversal or resentencing.
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July 02, 2025
Insurers Blast Avon Ch. 11 Talc Injury Trust
A group of insurance carriers is asking a Delaware bankruptcy judge to reject cosmetic seller Avon Products' Chapter 11 plan, saying it would unfairly force them to pay possibly bogus talc injury claims.
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July 02, 2025
Under The Radar: Bankruptcy News You May Have Missed
A bankruptcy judge approved Village Roadshow's proposal to pay a handful of important employees bonuses to stick around. A brokerage insurer backed a bid for $35.5 million in fees by counsel for the trustee overseeing the Bernie Madoff bankruptcy. A bankruptcy judge threw out media production company Splashlight Holding LLC's Chapter 11.
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July 02, 2025
Top Federal Tax Cases Of 2025: Midyear Report
In the first half of the year, the U.S. Supreme Court barred a defunct transportation company's bankruptcy trustee from clawing back federal taxes and prevented the U.S. Tax Court from reviewing a collection dispute after the IRS stopped going after the underlying debt. In Arizona, a federal judge refused to block the IRS from issuing batch denials of pandemic-era worker credit claims. Here, Law360 reviews some of the top federal court decisions from the past six months.
Expert Analysis
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How Law Firms Can Counteract The Loneliness Epidemic
The legal industry is facing an urgent epidemic of loneliness, affecting lawyer well-being, productivity, retention and profitability, and law firm leaders should take concrete steps to encourage the development of genuine workplace connections, says Michelle Gomez at Littler and Gwen Mellor Romans at Herald Talent.
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5 Keys To Building Stronger Attorney-Client Relationships
Attorneys are often focused on being seen as the expert, but bonding with clients and prospects by sharing a few key personal details provides the basis for a caring, trusted and profoundly deeper business relationship, says Deb Feder at Feder Development.
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How Courts Can Filter Nonmeritorious Claims In Mass Torts
Nonmeritorious claims have been a key obstacle to settlement in many recent high-profile mass torts, but courts may be able to use tools they already have to solve this problem, says Samir Parikh at Wake Forest University.
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Racing Corvettes Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The skills I use when racing Corvettes have enhanced my legal practice in several ways, because driving, like practicing law, requires precision, awareness and a good set of brakes — complete with the wisdom to know how and when to use them, says Kat Mateo at Olshan Frome.
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Attorneys Must Act Now To Protect Judicial Independence
Given the Trump administration's recent moves threatening the independence of the judiciary, including efforts to impeach judges who ruled against executive actions, lawyers must protect the rule of law and resist attempts to dilute the judicial branch’s authority, says attorney Bhavleen Sabharwal.
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Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises
“No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.
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How Design Thinking Can Help Lawyers Find Purpose In Work
Lawyers everywhere are feeling overwhelmed amid mass government layoffs, increasing political instability and a justice system stretched to its limits — but a design-thinking framework can help attorneys navigate this uncertainty and find meaning in their work, say law professors at the University of Michigan.
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Competitive Weightlifting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The parallels between the core principles required for competitive weightlifting and practicing law have helped me to excel in both endeavors, with each holding important lessons about discipline, dedication, drive and failure, says Damien Bielli at VF Law.
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Serta Ruling Further Narrows Equitable Mootness In 5th Circ.
The Fifth's Circuit recent Serta bankruptcy decision represents a further hardening of its view of the equitable mootness doctrine, and may set up a U.S. Supreme Court review of the doctrine in the near future, say attorneys at Cleary.
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Inconsistent Injury-In-Fact Rules Hinder Federal Practice
A recent Third Circuit decision, contradicting a previous ruling about whether consumers of contaminated products have suffered an injury in fact, illustrates the deep confusion this U.S. Supreme Court standard creates among federal judges and practitioners, who deserve a simpler method of determining which cases have federal standing, says Eric Dwoskin at Dwoskin Wasdin.
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In-House Counsel Pointers For Preserving Atty-Client Privilege
Several recent rulings illustrate the challenges in-house counsel can face when attempting to preserve attorney-client privilege, but a few best practices can help safeguard communications and effectively assert the privilege in an increasingly scrutinized corporate environment, says Daniel Garrie at Law & Forensics.
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Collecting Rare Books Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My collection of rare books includes several written or owned by prominent lawyers from early U.S. history, and immersing myself in their stories helps me feel a deeper connection to my legal practice and its purpose, says Douglas Brown at Manatt Health.
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Judge Should Not Have Been Reprimanded For Alito Essay
Senior U.S. District Judge Michael Ponsor's New York Times essay critiquing Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for potential ethical violations absolutely cannot be construed as conduct prejudicial to the administration of the business of the courts, says Ashley London at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University.