Resolving a split in the federal circuits, the Supreme Court has held that a workers’ compensation insurer is not entitled to priority status in bankruptcy court for premiums owed by the debtor. The ...

A side deal between secured and unsecured creditors to settle objections to the secured creditors' purchase of a bankrupt entity outside of a reorganization plan did not create estate assets covered ...

A full-time Townsville-based Federal Circuit Court judge will be appointed as a matter of priority if Labor take government at the next election. Queensland’s leading lawyers, in the Townsville ...

Last week the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a ruling in Goeddel v. Sugano, which might be one of a dying breed should patent reform actually pass. The case dealt with ...