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Latest News in Bankruptcy

  • January 21, 2025

    LED Screen Distributor Lied About $10M Debt, Jury Told

    The owner of a now-defunct LED screen distribution company lied to his Korean manufacturing partner about repaying an over $10 million debt in order to keep receiving shipments and pay himself a hefty salary, jurors heard as a civil fraud trial opened in California federal court on Tuesday.

  • January 21, 2025

    Ch. 11 Judge Slams Firm's 'Extraordinary' Lack Of Knowledge

    A New York bankruptcy judge has refused a fee bid and ordered a debtor's firm to return a nearly $30,000 retainer in a scathing opinion that warns lawyers against tiptoeing into bankruptcy practice and slams counsel for having an "extraordinary lack of basic Chapter 11 understanding."

  • January 21, 2025

    Receiver Sought For Partnership That Funded Affleck Films

    Film producer John P. Middleton has asked Delaware's Court of Chancery to appoint a receiver for The Film Capitol LLC, a partnership he formed in 2013 to provide funding for a production project with actor Casey Affleck.

  • January 21, 2025

    Judge OKs Deal To Keep Some American Freight Stores Open

    A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved a sale in Chapter 11 that will keep the lights on in more than two dozen American Freight home furnishing stores by transferring their leases from the bankrupt Franchise Group.

  • January 21, 2025

    4th Circ. Backs NASCAR Team Owner's $31M Ch. 11 Sanction

    The Fourth Circuit has backed a $31 million default judgment entered against a former NASCAR team manager as a sanction after what the published opinion called "egregious behavior" during discovery and "willful disregard of the bankruptcy code and the orders of the bankruptcy court."

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