Bankruptcy & Restructuring Research Examples
Real Bankruptcy & Restructuring research prompts, run end to end in Midpage — each with the full exchange, linked authorities, and citator treatment.
Consensual Releases After Purdue
How bankruptcy courts define a "consensual" third-party release after Harrington v. Purdue Pharma — Delaware’s affirmative-consent baseline, New York’s guardrailed opt-out approach, and the narrow band of non-voting creditors where the two lines actually diverge.
Insurer Standing After Kaiser Gypsum
How courts apply Truck Insurance Exchange v. Kaiser Gypsum when insurers claim a seat in Chapter 11 — the breadth of § 1109(b) party-in-interest status after the death of insurance neutrality, and the veto, prudential-standing, and issue-by-issue limits courts now use to calibrate participation.
Good-Faith Filing & the Texas Two-Step
How In re LTL Management made immediate, apparent financial distress a Chapter 11 gateway in the Third Circuit — and how the Fourth Circuit’s Carolin standard, reaffirmed in Bestwall and applied in Aldrich Pump, lets solvent divisional-merger debtors stay in bankruptcy instead.
The § 546(e) Safe Harbor After Merit
Where fraudulent-transfer clawbacks stand after Merit Management — the overarching-transfer rule, Nine West’s holding that § 546(e) is an affirmative defense with a transfer-by-transfer agency test, and the Eighth Circuit’s low-bar reading of the financial-institution customer workaround in Kelley.
Make-Whole Premiums & Solvent Debtors
Make-whole premiums are disallowed as the economic equivalent of unmatured interest under § 502(b)(2) — yet the Fifth, Ninth, and Third Circuits all make solvent debtors pay them anyway, whether the theory is a surviving pre-Code exception, unimpairment under § 1124(1), or absolute priority.
Executory Contracts After Tempnology
Rejection as breach — not rescission — under Mission Product v. Tempnology: which counterparty rights ride through rejection under § 365, when negative covenants remain enforceable by injunction, and when equitable remedies collapse into a pre-petition damages claim.