Justices Pass on ‘Critical’ Vendor Fight in Windstream Bankruptcy

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a Windstream Holdings Inc. vendor’s challenge to the use of “equitable mootness” to block an appeal from a bankruptcy court ruling.

The justices’ decision Monday leaves instact the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit’s refusal to hear waste management company GLM DFW Inc.'s complaint that the bankruptcy court unjustifiably denied payment for $2 million worth of services that GLM provided to Windstream.

GLM’s request for review is one of several asking the Supreme Court to scale back when courts can cite equitable mootness to shut down challenges to bankruptcy court orders. ...