In a suit by the trustee of the liquidation trust of Green Field Energy Services, a defunct oil services business, against the debtor’s former CEO and others, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware found that the trustee can recover almost $17 million. See Halperin v. Moreno, et al. (In re Green Field
Liquidation Trusts
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…