• In re The Weinstein Co. Holdings, LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-09-02
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Walrath
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Curtis A. Hehn, Wilmington, DE; Thomas E. Patterson and Sasha M. Gurvitz, KTBS Law, Los Angelos, CA for Netflix, Inc. Mary F. Caloway, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC , Wilmington, DE for Sartraco, Inc. David Stratton, David Fournier and Evelyn Meltzer, Troutman Pepper Hamilton LLP, Wilmington, DE for Spyglass Media Group LLC. Mark Collins, Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, DE
    for defendant: Paul H. Zumbro, George E. Zobitz and Karin A. DeMasi, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY for debtors

    Case Number: D69107

    Bankruptcy court denied a motion to compel compliance with a sale order, because licensing rights did not revert to the moving party upon termination of a distribution agreement.

  • In re: Affirmative Ins. Holdings Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-08-12
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Federal Government | Insurance
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard E. Zuckerman, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Christopher J. Williamson and Ward W. Benson, Tax Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffrey L. Moyer, Travis S. Hunter, and Arun J. Mohan, Richards Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: D69080

    Bankruptcy court erred in attempting to bifurcate corporate income taxes from a straddle year when tax law provided that annual income taxes only accrued and became liable on the last day of the tax year.

  • In re: Semcrude, L.P.

    Publication Date: 2020-07-01
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Energy
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William A. Hazeltine, Morris, Sullivan, Hazeltine Allison LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Don A. Beskrone and Stacy L. Newman, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D69032

    Seller's warranty of good title free of liens and encumbrances to an initial purchaser served to waive seller's right to assert a lien against a subsequent purchaser from the initial purchaser.

  • In re Tropicana Ent., LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-05-06
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Walrath
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Herbert Beigel, Herbert Beigel & Associates, LLC, Tucson, AZ; Joseph Grey, Cross & Simon LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Dennis A. Meloro and Nancy A. Peterman, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Chicago, IL; George M. Vinci, Jr. and Neal R. Troum, Spector Gadon Rosen Vinci P.C., Philadelphia, PA for defendants.

    Case Number: D68969

    Bankruptcy court granted a motion in limine regarding the admissibility of certain court opinions, but it denied the remainder of defendants' motions in limine.

  • In re: FBI Wind Down, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-05-06
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Consumer Products | Recruitment and Staffing
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Sontchi
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael B. Schaedle, Victoria Guilfoyle, and Brian J. Hall, Blank Rome LLP, Wilmington, DE; Mark S. Indelicato and Jeffrey Zawadzki, Hahn & Hessen LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Jennifer O. Johnson, Careers USA, Inc. General Counsel, Boca Raton, FL; Timothy J. Weiler, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: D68968

    Summary judgment on avoidance actions denied to the extent there remained factual disputes as to whether the transfers qualified as preferential or constructively fraudulent, in particularly whether certain transfers were made on account of an antecedent debt.

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  • In re SS Body Armor I, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-04-29
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Sontchi
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeremy W. Ryan and R. Stephen McNeill, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE for the equity group. Christopher S. Simon and Kevin S. Mann, Cross & Simon, Wilmington, DE; Michael S. Etkin, Lowenstein Sandler LLP, Roseland, NJ for lead plaintiff.
    for defendant: Laura Davis Jones, Alan J. Kornfeld, James E. O’Neill and Elissa A. Wagner, Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP, Wilmington, DE for SS Body Armor I, Inc. Frederick B. Rosner, Scott J. Leonhardt and Jason A. Gibson, The Rosner Law Group LLC, Wil-mington, DE; Robert M. Hirsh and Beth M. Brownstein, Arent Fox LLP, New York, NY for the recovery trust.

    Case Number: D68964

    The bankruptcy court had the power to aggregate remission payments realized by any of the parties and to redistribute them in accordance with the bankruptcy plan.

  • In re J&M Sales, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-04-01
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Consulting | Transportation
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Dorsey
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: D68928

    Adversary proceeding to recover allegedly wrongfully withheld funds correctly dismissed where an express contract exclusively governed the relationship between plaintiff and debtor and where plaintiff could therefore not seek to hold debtor's agent liable for debtor's failure to perform contractual obligations.

  • In re: FAH Liquidating Corp.

    Publication Date: 2020-01-15
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Gross
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: D68840

    Terminated employees were entitled to priority treatment of claims where employer had experienced cessation of business during the workforce reduction because it stopped design and manufacture of its products and had laid off the employees necessary to restart product design and production.

  • In re Emerge Energy Serv. LP

    Publication Date: 2020-01-08
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Mining and Resources
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Owens
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: D68833

    Bankruptcy court determined that a plan for reorganization could be approved, but only if a third-party release provision was modified.

  • In re: Energy Future Holdings Corp.

    Publication Date: 2019-11-06
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Energy
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: D68760

    District court correctly affirmed the bankruptcy court's disallowance of a bondholder's proof of claim where the bondholder had sold the bonds prior to filing a proof of claim, since the buyer of the bonds became the party with the right to payment of the principal and interest on the bond.