Gates v. California

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a non-debtor, non-creditor excess insurer of the debtor lacked a pecuniary interest to intervene and object to settlement between debtor and debtor’s other insurer
• noting that the Seventh Circuit has said that the UST can be a “party in interest” because of his watchdog role in bankruptcy cases
• declaring an excess insurer’s pecuniary interest in the settlement between a primary insurer and the debtor as “too remote”
• interpreting 11 U.S.C. § 1109 (b)
• addressing insurance company’s claim of “probabilistic harm”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).