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title: Millenium Lab Holdings—Ruling on Third Party Releases Highlights Continuing Constitutional Questions Regarding Power of Bankruptcy Courts
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# Millenium Lab Holdings—Ruling on Third Party Releases Highlights Continuing Constitutional Questions Regarding Power of Bankruptcy Courts

  May 19, 2017

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*Law360* published special counsel [Ben Feder’s](/Our-People/Benjamin-Feder) Bankruptcy Law Insights blog post, ​“Millenium Lab Holdings – Ruling on Third Party Releases Highlights Continuing Constitutional Questions Regarding Power of Bankruptcy Courts.” The article discusses the *Millenium Lab Holdings* case where Delaware District Court Judge Leonard Stark, on an appeal from a bankruptcy court order confirming a plan of reorganization, upheld a challenge to the bankruptcy court’s constitutional authority to release claims against non-debtor third parties under the plan. Judge Stark’s opinion demonstrated the extent to which the constitutional questions raised by the Supreme Court in *Stern v. Marshall* continue to cast a shadow over the adjudication of bankruptcy cases. The blog post goes on to further explore the *Stern* case and how Judge Stark’s opinion in the *Millenium Lab Holdings* highlights the ongoing uncertainty created by this case.

To read the full blog post, please [click here](http://www.bankruptcylawinsights.com/2017/05/millenium-lab-holdings-ruling-on-third-party-releases-highlights-continuing-constitutional-questions-regarding-power-of-bankruptcy-courts/).

 

 

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