In October of this year, Sears Holdings Corp and affiliated Debtors filed a Chapter 11 case in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in a case pending before Judge Drain. Since that time, the company has been reducing its debt and its physical footprint by closing stores. After the bankruptcy
Breach of Fiduciary Duty
Bankruptcy Court Grants Motion To Dismiss Based Upon Affirmative Defense
By Fox Rothschild LLP on
Posted in Directors & Officers (D&O) Litigation
Michael Temin writes:
When deciding a motion to dismiss a complaint pursuant to Federal R. Bankr. 7008, which incorporates Rule 12(b)(6), a court must accept all factual allegations in the complaint as true and construe all inferences from those allegations in favor of a plaintiff. It was, therefore, unusual when a Michigan bankruptcy court dismissed…