July 17, 2026
The Third Circuit ruled Friday that the bankrupt city of Chester, Pennsylvania, gets to keep income from a casino, a trash incinerator and other sources that secured its debt, finding that its creditors' liens on the revenues did not survive Chester's Chapter 9 filing.
February 17, 2026
The Third Circuit on Tuesday upheld a bankruptcy court's order prohibiting the Chester Water Authority from probing the bankrupt Pennsylvania city's attempts to dissolve the water authority and use its assets in Chapter 9.
September 30, 2025
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday pressed attorneys for Delaware County and municipal bondholders on why their liens on city-generated revenues carried forward when the Pennsylvania city of Chester filed for bankruptcy in 2022.