• In re: HRB Winddown Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-01
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Consumer Products | Distribution and Wholesale | Retail
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Shannon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 19-12689 (BLS)

    Genuine issues of material fact precluded summary judgment in avoidance/recovery adversary action where debtors had obtained court approval to pay critical vendors but debtors paid substantially more than initially identified and evidence suggested defendant may have pressured debtors to make timely payments during preference period.

  • In re: Cupples

    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Shannon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-10741 (BLS)

    Court dismissed bankruptcy petition that appeared to be filed solely to avoid liability on a large judgment entered for damages caused by debtors' misconduct.

  • In re: Samson Res. Corp.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-27
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Shannon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; J. Christopher Shore, Colin T. West, White & Case, LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Michael S. Neiberg, Young, Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sabina Willett, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Boston, MA; David M. Stern, KTBS Law LLP, Los Angeles, CA for defendants.

    Case Number: 15-11934 (BLS)

    Suit to recover proceeds of the sale of debtor as a fraudulent transfer failed where the acquisition negotiations were fair and conducted at arms-length, since the seller was entitled to sell the company for as much as they could get and the buyer was free to negotiate what it considered a fair price, even though in hindsight the purchase price seemed overinflated as it placed an unsustainable amount of debt on the company.

  • In re Peck

    Publication Date: 2023-01-31
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Real Estate
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Shannon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-11161 (BLS)

    The court overruled the creditor's objections to a debtor's Chapter 13 plan on the basis that they disagreed as to the classification of his real property which further included a mobile home.

  • In re: Quorum Health Corp.

    Publication Date: 2023-01-24
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Health Care | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Shannon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 20-10766 (BLS)

    Court dismissed adversary complaint seeking to revoke plan of reorganization where plaintiff was an unimpaired general unsecured creditor who was not entitled to vote on the plan.

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  • In re: Main St. Bus. Funding, LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-06-21
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Shannon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John P. Lane, Jr., Berwyn, PA, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant: Ricardo Palacio, Ashby & Geddes, P.A., Wilmington, DE, attorney for trustee.

    Case Number: D69861

    Perfected security interest did not cover proceeds from commercial tort litigation where the proceeds were acquired after the security interest was established and where the interest only included a general claim to the intangible property of the debtor.

  • In re: RGN-Group Holdings, LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-03-01
    Practice Area: Fee Disputes
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Real Estate
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Shannon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: D69733

    Claimant could pursue attorneys' fees where authorized by lease that debtor remained obligated under, and where claimant had yet to recover the statutory cap of unpaid rent.

  • In re: TK Holdings, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-01-11
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Automotive | Insurance | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Shannon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: D69677

    Adversary proceeding to determine insurer's obligation to provide coverage constituted a non-core proceeding as it only required analysis of the policy contracts rather than of the bankruptcy plan or bankruptcy law.

  • In re: Hosp. Acquisition LLC

    Publication Date: 2021-01-06
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Shannon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: M. Blake Cleary, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Abid Qureshi, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, New York, NY for debtors.
    for defendant: Donald J. Detweiler, Troutman Pepper, Wilmington, DE; James P. Muenker, Neligan, LLP, Dallas, TX for movant.

    Case Number: D69248

    Lump sum adjustment from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services received by debtors constituted a "settlement" and therefore qualified as a purchased asset that debtors were required to turn over under the terms of the parties' asset purchase agreement.

  • In re: Tribune Media Co.

    Publication Date: 2020-03-18
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Shannon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: D68912

    Debtors' objection to defamation claims sustained where plaintiff failed to prove by preponderance of the evidence that allegedly defamatory newspaper article contained misstatements or omissions of material facts.