Whittle Development, Inc. v. Branch Banking & Trust Co.

In re Summer View Sherman Oaks Apartments, LLC (Bankr. C.D. Cal.) Case no. 11-19800

In re Piedmont Center Investments, LLC (Bankr. E.D. Wis.) Case no. 11-32453

In re Provo Gateway, LLC (Bankr. D. Utah) Case no. 11-31259

In re Gelt Financial Corporation (Bankr. E.D. Pa.) Case no. 11-15827

In re GALP Highcross Limited Partnership (Bankr. S.D. Tex.) Case no. 11-36741
In re GALP Waters Limited Partnership (Bankr. S.D. Tex.) Case no. 11-36743

In re Culver Village, LLC (Bankr. C.D. Cal.) Case no. 11-46359

In Green Tree Serv., LLC v. DBSI Landmark Towers LLC,1 a case that is significant for landlords and leasing attorneys, the Eighth Circuit recently held that a subtenant of commercial office space was permitted to vacate its leased premises after the rejection of the master lease and sublease by the debtor-sublandlord, notwithstanding an attornment provision in the sublease requiring the subtenant to attorn2 to the landlord when the landlord either terminates the master lease or otherwise succeeds to the interest of the sublandlord under the master lease.

FILING CHAPTER 13

In a decision that may have implications for holders of community development district bonds and other similar “dirt bonds,” a Florida bankruptcy court has ruled that holders of community development district bonds do not always have plan voting rights when the underlying developer — as opposed to the development district itself — is the bankruptcy debtor.