City of Chester, Pennsylvania

  1. October 08, 2025

    Judge Won't Lift Ch. 9 Stay In Chester Utility Dispute

    A bankruptcy judge ruled Wednesday that the water utility for Chester, Pennsylvania, can't try to alter a five-year-old state court order allowing the bankrupt city to seek bidders for the utility company's assets.

  2. October 06, 2025

    Chester Objects To Water Authority's Bid For Ch. 9 Stay Relief

    The city of Chester has asked a Pennsylvania bankruptcy judge to reject a request from the Chester Water Authority for relief from the automatic stay in the city's Chapter 9 case, saying the CWA was renewing an attack on the city's authority to dissolve it.

  3. September 30, 2025

    3rd Circ. Mulls Liens On Casino Revenue In Pa. City's Ch. 9

    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.

  4. August 21, 2025

    Pa. City Water Dept. Fights Bid To Sanction Counsel

    The Chester Water Authority has urged a Pennsylvania bankruptcy court to reject the city's bid to recover about $140,000 in attorney fees as sanctions, arguing any delay in producing documents was necessary to comply with a state confidential information law.

  5. June 16, 2025

    23andMe Names New Buyer, Pa. Retirees Sue Over Ch. 9 Sale

    Retired employees of a Philadelphia suburb filed a lawsuit to open the sale of municipal water systems to private operators in Chester, Pennsylvania's Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy. 23andMe said it selected a nonprofit created by its co-founder to buy the consumer genetic testing company's assets, replacing a pharmaceutical developer that won a Chapter 11 auction. And Jackson Walker, one of its former attorneys and a former bankruptcy judge are facing a proposed class action, the latest fallout from a 2023 ethics scandal in Texas.

  6. June 12, 2025

    Philly Suburb Retirees Sue Ch. 9 Receiver Over Asset Sale

    A committee of retired city employees sued the Chapter 9 receiver overseeing the city of Chester, Pennsylvania's municipal bankruptcy, arguing that by requiring water system assets be sold to a publicly owned entity, the receiver is forgoing private bids that could generate an extra $270 million for the city's creditors. 

  7. April 02, 2025

    Chester, Pa., Ch. 9 Document Dispute Won't Wait For Appeal

    A Pennsylvania bankruptcy judge on Wednesday scuttled a request from the Chester Water Authority for a stay pending appeal of an order to produce documents to the bankrupt city of Chester, saying the utility hadn't shown the order should be frozen.

  8. March 11, 2025

    Chester, Pa., Water Authority Seeks Stay Of Ch. 9 Docs Order

    The Chester Water Authority has asked a Pennsylvania bankruptcy court for a stay pending appeal of an order to produce documents to the bankrupt City of Chester, which seeks to sell off the utility's assets, saying the order was unconstitutional.

  9. February 12, 2025

    Chester, Pa., Can Probe Water Utility's Assets In Ch. 9

    A Pennsylvania bankruptcy judge gave the ailing city of Chester the green light Wednesday to probe a water utility about its assets, but stopped short of allowing the city under Chapter 9 protection to share the information or allowing an auditor to visit the utility's property.

  10. January 02, 2025

    Bankrupt Pa. City Must Remit Casino Revenue, County Argues

    Pennsylvania's Delaware County has asked the Third Circuit to undo a bankruptcy court's ruling that the financially ailing city of Chester is excused from paying the county revenue from gambling taxes because of the city's Chapter 9 proceedings, despite an ordinance mandating that the county get a cut of the money.