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Delaware District Court Could Guide Supreme Court Purdue Pharma Decision
A bankruptcy court properly held that derivative claims based on "piercing the corporate veil theory of liability [were] released under" a confirmed reorganization plan, but that direct "claims for negligent undertaking" were not released and "could be asserted" in state court against the debtors' equity sponsors (Sponsors). In re Port Neches Fuels, LLC, 2024 WL 1298590, *1 (D. Del. Mar. 27, 2024). The confirmed plan, affirmed by the district court, had released "any and all claims … (including any derivative claims, asserted or assertable on behalf of the Debtors [and] the Reorganized Debtors … against certain released parties," including the Sponsors. When plaintiffs sued the Sponsors in Texas state court, the defendants asked the bankruptcy court to "enforce the plan, arguing that the plaintiffs' claims were based on piercing the corporate veil theory of liability, that any such claims belonged to the Debtors' estates, and accordingly those claims were released under the plan." Id.
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The U.S. Supreme Court will "soon, likely before its summer break … render an opinion in … [Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P., (Case No. 23-124) ((argued Dec. 4, 2023)]." Brian Shaw and David Doyle, "How Purdue Pharma High Court Case May Change Bankruptcy," LAW 360, April 3, 2024. According to Messrs. Shaw and Doyle, the Court's decision "may be the death of most third-party releases in Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases," like the one in Port Neches. Id. As shown below, this fear may be overwrought.
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