April 16, 2025
Jackson Walker LLP told a federal judge that the CEO of a now-bankrupt barge company is improperly trying to relitigate the issue of standing in bankruptcy court with his suit over a former judge's secret romance with a firm partner.
March 10, 2025
A Texas federal judge sent part of a dispute over a former bankruptcy judge's secret romance with a onetime Jackson Walker partner back to the court where the disgraced jurist once oversaw high-profile insolvencies, ordering the CEO of a defunct barge operator to seek standing in Texas bankruptcy court.
March 06, 2025
A federal judge asked a Texas bankruptcy court to determine if the CEO of a now-bankrupt barge company has standing to sue over a former judge's secret romance with a Jackson Walker partner.
March 04, 2025
A federal judge expressed incredulity Tuesday that Jackson Walker didn't press its former partner harder to get the exact dates of her relationship with a former bankruptcy judge when allegations of their relationship came to light in 2021.
October 07, 2024
FTX will start repaying customers using up to $16.5 billion in assets that the fallen cryptocurrency company has recovered since filing for bankruptcy in November 2022, after a Delaware bankruptcy judge blessed FTX's reorganization plan at a hearing Monday.
October 04, 2024
Former bankruptcy judge David R. Jones said judicial immunity bars claims over his undisclosed romantic relationship with a former Jackson Walker LLP attorney because the purported harm to the onetime head of a now-shuttered barge company stemmed from official acts.
September 04, 2024
The former head of a now-shuttered barge company is asking a Texas federal judge to keep alive his claims against a former bankruptcy judge over his undisclosed romantic relationship with an attorney on the company's Chapter 11 case, saying the onetime jurist isn't entitled to immunity for "decidedly non-judicial acts."
August 26, 2024
Courts across the state are poised to make decisions in several high-stakes cases over the next several months, including ruling on whether Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton can be deposed in a long-running employment retaliation suit and whether a challenge to Texas' floating Rio Grande barrier must be tried before a jury.
July 22, 2024
The court-appointed watchdog for Miles Guo's bankruptcy has unpaused a civil racketeering conspiracy case against the Chinese billionaire after his criminal RICO case resulted in a conviction, ex-New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani's Chapter 11 case has still yet to be dissolved, and a new bankruptcy judge has ascended to the bench in New York.
July 19, 2024
The former CEO of a now-defunct barge company claims that a Houston bankruptcy judge's affair with a Jackson Walker attorney helped destroy his business, saying that Jackson Walker shouldn't escape racketeering claims because it hid its part in the lucrative relationship.