Legal Opinion
Czyzewski v. Jevic Holding Corp.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 22, 2017No. 15-649PublishedCited by 309 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breyer
Bankruptcy Code Chapter 11 allows debtors and their creditors to negotiate a plan for dividing an estate’s value. See 11 U.S.C. §§ 1128, 1129, 1141. But sometimes the parties cannot agree on a plan. If so, the bankruptcy court may decide to dismiss the case. § 1112(b). The Code then ordinarily provides for what is, in effect, a restoration of the prepetition financial status quo. § 349(b),
In the case before us, a Bankruptcy Court dismissed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy. But the-court did not simply restore the prepetition status quo. Instead, the court ordered a distribution of estate assets that…
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