Justices Decline to Review Bankruptcy Purview Over Non-US Assets

The US Supreme Court declined to review US bankruptcy courts’ jurisdictional limits over foreign parties, leaving in place an Illinois bankruptcy judge’s refusal to weigh in on a debtor’s Irish property claims.

Under a federal appeals court ruling that the justices declined to review on Monday, bankruptcy courts have legal purview over a debtor’s assets but don’t have jurisdiction over everything that happens to that property outside of the US.

Petitioner Joseph C. Sheehan had asked the high court to examine whether the judge in his 2020 bankruptcy case had a limited ability to exercise jurisdiction over parties who seized ...