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title: "Landlords Given Reasons to Sweat: “Teeny Tiny” Non-Monetary Defaults and Assumption Requirements"
date: 2023-03-16T00:00:00-04:00
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# Landlords Given Reasons to Sweat: ​“Teeny Tiny” Non-Monetary Defaults and Assumption Requirements

  March 16, 2023

American Bankruptcy Institute Journal

 

 

 

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In an article in the *ABI Journal*, [Bob LeHane](/Our-People/Robert-L-LeHane) and [Philip Weintraub](/Our-People/Philip-A-Weintraub) discuss an October 2021 Central District of California decision upholding a bankruptcy court interpretation of section 365(b) that requires a debtor-tenant to only cure ​“material” defaults when assuming a lease of non-residential real property. Is this inclusion of a California state law based ​“materiality” requirement into the Bankruptcy Code a notable outlier, or it will open the door for future erosion of 365(b) protections for landlords?  
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