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In the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Congress hurriedly passed a host of economic relief bills to provide “American workers, families, and small businesses fast and direct economic assistance and to preserve jobs.” The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) was enacted in March 2020 to provide over $2 trillion in economic relief. The CARES Act included the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and certain follow-on acts that injected over $650 billion for small business and their employees. Additionally, small businesses were granted the right to apply for Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) offered by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).
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Retention of Title Disputes: Don’t Take the Uniform Commercial Code for Granted
By Eva D. Gadzheva, Jeremy M. Downs and David E. Morrison
This article reminds us of the conflict-of-laws analysis at the heart of such retention of title disputes, and then discuss the multi-step UCC analysis that is also required.
Second Circuit Applies Federal Bankruptcy Law, Not Securities Law, In Madoff SIPA Liquidation
By Michael L. Cook
The Second Circuit applied federal bankruptcy law when holding that good faith is an affirmative defense.
Congress Seeks to Restrict Nondebtor Releases in New Bankruptcy Reform Bill
By Thomas R. Califano and Anna Gumport
Members of Congress recently introduced the Nondebtor Release Prohibition Act, which proposes to amend the Bankruptcy Code to, among other things, restrict courts’ ability to approve third-party releases of nondebtors and related injunctions under plans of reorganization or otherwise in Chapter 11 cases.
Authority to File Chapter 11: A Matter of Contract or Public Policy?
By Steven B. Smith and Rachel Ginzburg
If you think public policy favoring the freedom to file a Chapter 11 trumps the freedom to negotiate specific restrictions to such a filing, think again.
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