Who can claim lease damages
6525 Belcrest Road v. Dewey, L.C.
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- In its petition, 6525 Belcrest Road, LLC says the lower courts allowed a commercial lease claim based on the remaining 24-year term even though the claimant had assigned the lease rights and kept rent rights only through a set date.
- What's at stake
- It remains unresolved whether the lease claimant may seek damages based on the remaining 24-year term and how much it may claim.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
The LLC asks the Supreme Court to review whether federal bankruptcy law or state law and the assignment control who may claim lease-rejection damages and how much.
The petition says the lease claimant transferred its lease rights but kept the right to rent only through a set date.
Question presented
Whether 11 U.S.C. § 101(5) determines whether an assignor or assignee of a commercial real-property lease has standing to assert a claim for lease rejection damages, and in what amount under § 502(b)(6), or whether those questions must be determined by state law and the parties' assignment pursuant to § 502(b)(1), Butner, and Travelers.
What happens next
The Court must decide whether to take the case. No oral argument or decision date is set.
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