Shakespeare bemoaned "the law's delay." Dickens brought us Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, a case spanning generations. However, a new Chapter 11 case filed in Corpus Christi demonstrated the opposite of delay, blazing from petition to ... Read full article
Judge Robert Gerber ruled last week that General Motors LLC (“New GM”), the entity formed in 2009 to acquire the assets of General Motors Corporation (“Old GM”), is shielded from a substantial portion of the lawsuits based on ignition switch defects in ... Read full article
Judge Robert Gerber will be stepping down at the end of this year, ending a storied judicial career highlighted by his oversight of the 2009 chapter 11 case of General Motors Corporation (“Old GM”). ... Read full article
General Motors LLC (“New GM”) came into being in the summer of 2009, when it acquired substantially all of the assets of General Motors Corporation (“Old GM”) in a sale undertaken pursuant to section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code. The July 2009 Sale Order ... Read full article
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued an en banc opinion (pdf) today in which it overruled the Frenville standard for determining the existence of a "claim" for purposes of Section 101(5) of the Bankruptcy Code. ... Read full article
