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The Third Circuit Requires Inequitable Conduct By A Higher-Priority Creditor To Equitably Subordinate Its Debt To A Lower-Priority Creditor, Caitlyn R. Marino
The Third Circuit Requires Inequitable Conduct By A Higher-Priority Creditor To Equitably Subordinate Its Debt To A Lower-Priority Creditor, Caitlyn R. Marino
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Title 11 of the United States Code (the “Bankruptcy Code”) implements a basic priority system under section 507 to determine the order a bankruptcy court will distribute the assets of an estate. The classic hierarchy begins with secured creditors, then “[s]pecial classes of creditors, such as those [holding] certain claims for taxes or wages . . . [then] low-priority creditors, including general unsecured creditors . . . [followed by] equity holders . . . [who] receive nothing until all previously listed creditors have been paid in full.” Section 510(c) of the Bankruptcy Code authorizes disturbing the fundamental distribution scheme …