June 16, 2025
Retired employees of a Philadelphia suburb filed a lawsuit to open the sale of municipal water systems to private operators in Chester, Pennsylvania's Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy. 23andMe said it selected a nonprofit created by its co-founder to buy the consumer genetic testing company's assets, replacing a pharmaceutical developer that won a Chapter 11 auction. And Jackson Walker, one of its former attorneys and a former bankruptcy judge are facing a proposed class action, the latest fallout from a 2023 ethics scandal in Texas.
June 13, 2025
The Third Circuit declined to hold a panel or full court rehearing of its May decision to uphold the Boy Scouts of America's Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan in a pair of Friday orders rejecting petitions by two sets of abuse survivors, with the orders implying some judges on the court had supported taking another look.
June 05, 2025
A technology platform for startups is hoping to mediate a string of legal disputes with a creditor and former business partner in its Chapter 11. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints urged a Delaware bankruptcy judge to enforce the Boy Scouts of America's Chapter 11 channeling injunction, saying it has been forced to defend itself from released claims. And ExxonMobil objected to a biofuel startup's Chapter 11 auction proposal, asserting that it has rights to certain intellectual property up for sale.
May 14, 2025
The Third Circuit's rejection of challenges to third-party releases in the Boy Scouts of America's Chapter 11 plan may appear at odds with the U.S. Supreme Court's Purdue decision last year, but the panel said the already enacted plan can't be undone even if it couldn't pass muster today, experts told Law360.
May 13, 2025
The Third Circuit upheld the bulk of the Boy Scouts of America's Chapter 11 plan to deal with thousands of childhood sex abuse claims, but agreed Tuesday with one objecting insurer that its rights were impermissibly altered under the plan.
May 09, 2025
A Delaware bankruptcy judge has ruled a former Boy Scout's claim of repressed memories of sexual abuse is a valid reason for missing a deadline to apply聽for damages from the trust established in the Boy Scouts of America's Chapter 11 case.
March 27, 2025
A Delaware federal judge has upheld a bankruptcy court order that childhood sexual abuse survivors who accidentally opted in for a quicker, smaller payment over their claims could not undo that mistake in the Boy Scouts' Chapter 11.
November 12, 2024
The Third Circuit heard arguments on Boy Scouts of America's Chapter 11 plan from sexual abuse survivors as well as insurers, California's attorney general disputed Sullivan & Cromwell's fee requests in Kidde-Fenwal Inc.'s bankruptcy, and the U.S. trustee is seeking documents from Jackson Walker LLP regarding a former attorney's secret relationship with a bankruptcy judge. This is the week in bankruptcy.
November 07, 2024
A Delaware bankruptcy judge said Thursday she will allow a Boy Scouts sexual abuse survivor, who missed a claims bar cutoff and a deadline to apply to a trust set up for abuse claimants, to file a late claim in the Boy Scouts' Chapter 11 case because he had limited access to information at the prison where he's serving an 18-year sentence.
November 06, 2024
Questions over whether equitable and statutory mootness foreclose challenges to the Boy Scouts of America's bankruptcy took center stage Wednesday during arguments before the Third Circuit, with the judges and parties involved noting the impact that changing the Chapter 11 plan that's already in effect could have on thousands of sexual abuse survivors.