Like the prior edition, this edition retains the casebook's historical attention to the logic and limits of personal and business bankruptcy yet expands the book’s focus to capture the ways that current bankruptcy practice has been fashioned by lawyers and judges. This edition contains a new unit on this summer’s Supreme Court decision in Purdue Pharma, which reshapes the law of third-party releases. Other updates to the book include the addition of the novel LTL Management and National Rifle Association opinions on good-faith filing. Also added is a discussion of the Supreme Court’s opinion in Fulton on the turnover of property as well as discussions of the appellate decisions Weinstein Company on executory contracts, Generation Resources on fraudulent conveyances, and Nuverra on equitable mootness. The new edition of the book will be available for adoption this coming spring semester, while fall adopters of the current edition will be provided with early access to the new Purdue Pharma material as well as edited versions of the LTL and NRA opinions; adopters will be invited to share this advance copy with their students.


Imprint: Foundation Press
Series: University Casebook Series
Publication Date: 10/30/2024

Barry E. Adler, New York University School of Law

Anthony J. Casey, University of Chicago Law School

Edward R. Morrison, Columbia University Law School

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This edition contains a new unit on this summer’s Supreme Court decision in Purdue Pharma, which reshapes the law of third-party releases. Other updates to the book include the addition of the novel LTL Management and National Rifle Association opinions on good-faith filing. Also added is a discussion of the Supreme Court’s opinion in Fulton on the turnover of property as well as discussions of the appellate decisions Weinstein Company on executory contracts, Generation Resources on fraudulent conveyances, and Nuverra on equitable mootness.

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