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1:20-bk-10343

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Delaware

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  1. June 05, 2025

    Under The Radar: Bankruptcy News You May Have Missed

    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.

  2. May 14, 2025

    Why Boy Scout Releases Were OK Despite Failing Purdue Test

    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.

  3. May 13, 2025

    3rd Circ. Upholds Most Of Boy Scouts' Ch. 11 Plan

    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.

  4. May 09, 2025

    Del. Judge Allows Late Survivor Claim In Boy Scouts Ch. 11

    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 for damages from the trust established in the Boy Scouts of America's Chapter 11 case.

  5. March 27, 2025

    Boy Scouts Claimants Lose Appeal To Fix Ch. 11 Opt-In Error

    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.

  6. November 12, 2024

    3rd Circ. Weighs Boy Scouts Ch. 11, Calif. AG Balks At Fee Bid

    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.

  7. November 07, 2024

    Boy Scouts Judge OKs Incarcerated Survivor's Late Claim

    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.

  8. November 06, 2024

    3rd Circ. Mulls Mootness In Boy Scouts Ch. 11 Plan Appeals

    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.

  9. October 17, 2024

    Boy Scouts Ch. 11 Runs Up $295M Professional Fee Bill In Q3

    Boy Scouts of America has filed a post-confirmation report in its Chapter 11 case, reporting it has incurred $295 million in professional fees in the third quarter ending Sept. 30.

  10. August 28, 2024

    Boy Scout Abuse Trust Art Sales To Start In November

    An auction house announced Wednesday that parts of the Boy Scouts of America's former art collection, including a number of Norman Rockwell pieces, will go on the auction block in November to pay for claims by sexual abuse survivors.