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Dirty Dancing: Is The Texas Two-Step A Bad Faith Filing?, Katharine H. O'Neill
Dirty Dancing: Is The Texas Two-Step A Bad Faith Filing?, Katharine H. O'Neill
Fordham Law Review
The Texas Two-Step is both a style of line dancing and a legal maneuver used by several large, profitable companies to enable a newly created entity to access the bankruptcy system and, thus, discharge the tort liabilities of its predecessor. This type of filing has been criticized by some as a tool used by healthy companies to evade responsibility for their tortious conduct and lauded by others as an efficient means to achieve a global resolution of crushing mass tort liability. Whether Texas Two-Step filings may properly access the bankruptcy courts is a question governed by § 1112(b) of the …