On February 2, 2015, Judge Kevin Gross of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware held that the venue choice of embattled debtor Caesars Entertainment Operating Company (“CEOC”) was “entitled to just enough deference” to support a finding that, in the interest of justice, CEOC’s voluntary case and an earlier-filed involuntary case should proceed in CEOC’s chosen venue rather than the venue of the involuntary case. In re Caesars Entm’t Operating Company, Inc., Case No. 15-10047 (KG) (Bankr. D. Del. Feb. 2, 2015).
The opinion addresses an issue of first impression as to how a bankruptcy court should evaluate competing venue claims in simultaneous cases against the same debtor.
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