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Bankruptcy Cases Before the U.S. Supreme Court

October 2011 Term

Radlax Gateway Hotel, et al., v. Amalgamated Bank (11-166)

• Issue:
  
  Issue: Whether a debtor may pursue a chapter 11 plan that proposes to sell assets free of liens without allowing the secured creditor to credit bid, but instead providing it with the indubitable equivalent of its claim under Section 1129(b)(2)(A)(iii) of the Bankruptcy Code. (via SCOTUSBlog)

• Oral Argument: April 23, 2012
  
  Transcript
  
  Audio Stream (From linked page, scroll to the bottom to start the player).
  
  
• Certiorari Granted: December 12, 2011
  
  
• Petitions and Merits:
  
  Brief in opposition
  
  Petitioners' reply
  
  Petition for certiorari
  
  Merits Briefs for the Petitioners
  
  Brief for RadLax Gateway Hotel et al.
  
  Reply Brief Radlax Gateway Hotel et al.
  
  Merits Briefs for the Respondent
  
  Brief for Amalgamated Bank
  
  
• Amicus in Support of the Respondent
  
  Brief for Professors Richard Aaron et al.
  
  Brief for Bankruptcy Scholars
  
  Brief for the Loan Syndications and Trading Association et al.
  
  Brief for G. Eric Brunstad, Jr.
  
  Brief for the United States
  
  
• 7th Circuit Opinion

Hall v. United States (10-875)

• Issue:
  
  Does Section 1399 of the Internal Revenue Code, which provides that a bankruptcy filing other than an individual chapter 7 or individual chapter 11 does not give rise to a "separate taxable entity," mean that the capital gains income tax incurred as a result of the sale of a family farm by petitioners, who had filed a chapter 12 bankruptcy petition, is not a Bankruptcy Code administrative expense owed by the bankruptcy estate and payable under a bankruptcy reorganization plan? (via SCOTUSBlog)

• Oral Arguments: Nov. 29, 2011
  
  Transcript.
  
  
• Certiorari Granted: June 13, 2011
  
  
• Petitions and Merits:
  
  Brief for petitioner Lynwood D. Hall
  
  Brief for respondent United States
  
• Amicus Briefs:
  
  Brief for Donald W. Dawes and Phyllis C. Dawes
  
  Brief for Professors Neil E. Harl, Jack F. Williams, and Robert Himschoot