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Category Archives: Equitable Mootness
Second Circuit Adopts Abuse of Discretion Standard of Review for Equitable Mootness Decisions
On August 31, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit published its first decision expressly adopting an abuse of discretion standard for reviewing equitable mootness determinations by district courts. In In re Charter Communications, Inc., the Second Circuit followed the Third and Tenth Circuits, while also reaffirming the Second Circuit’s rebuttable presumption of equitable mootness upon substantial consummation of a debtor’s plan. The Charter court ultimately held that the presumption applied but was not overcome and therefore dismissed the appeal at issue as equitably moot. In re Charter Commc’ns Inc., 2012 WL 3764706 (2d Cir. Aug. 31, 2012). Continue reading
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Third Circuit Reiterates Narrow Application of Equitable Mootness Doctrine
The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently reiterated its position that the doctrine of equitable mootness should only apply if granting relief on appeal would undermine a consummated bankruptcy plan. In In re Philadelphia Newspapers, LLC, the Third Circuit held that the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania abused its discretion when summarily finding that the appeal at issue was equitably moot simply because the appellants failed to seek a stay and the debtors’ plan had been substantially consummated. Upon a more careful review of the equitable mootness test enunciated by the Third Circuit en banc in In re Continental Airlines, 91 F.3d 553 (3d Cir. 1996), the Philadelphia Newspapers court found that the appeal should proceed. However, it ultimately affirmed the ruling of the district court that managers of a charter school were not entitled to an administrative expense claim for the debtors’ postpetition internet publication of an article that linked to other allegedly defamatory articles that the debtors published prepetition. See In re Philadelphia Newspapers, LLC, 2012 WL 3038578 (3d Cir. July 26, 2012). Continue reading
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