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April 29, 2024
Kemp Klein Adds Bankruptcy Atty In Mich.
Detroit-area-based Kemp Klein Law Firm has announced it hired a new bankruptcy-focused corporate lawyer to bolster its corporate, litigation and bankruptcy practices.
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April 29, 2024
ABI's New Prez, Scammers Charged, Giuliani To Appeal
The American Bankruptcy Institute named Polsinelli attorney Christopher A. Ward as its new president, the Office of the United States Trustee charged two with fraud for petition preparation services, and Rudy Giuliani asked a New York judge for permission to appeal his $148 million defamation verdict to the D.C. Circuit.
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April 29, 2024
Demystifying The Alphabet Soup Of ABC Insolvency
Not every insolvency proceeding must take place in the so-called fishbowl of federal bankruptcy. There is a state-level option that can provide a quicker, quieter and sometimes less expensive alternative for companies seeking to liquidate their assets.
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April 29, 2024
Peer Street Plan Ruling Gets Delayed After Objector No-Show
Real estate investment platform Peer Street Inc. will have to wait another week for a decision on confirmation of its Chapter 11 plan, after a Delaware bankruptcy judge declined Monday to rule on the relief because an objecting party wasn't present in court.
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April 29, 2024
Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court
A multibillion-dollar Tesla trust proposal, a Truth Social bond, power plays over Prince's estate, and three in the ring for World Wrestling Entertainment. All of this and much more came up in Delaware Chancery Court dockets last week.
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April 29, 2024
4th Circ. OKs Sanctions Against Law Firm In Bestwall Ch. 11
A split Fourth Circuit panel on Monday refused to overturn more than $402,000 in sanctions against a law firm and its clients as part of bankruptcy proceedings for a Georgia-Pacific unit, saying the contempt and sanctions orders can't be appealed because they aren't final judgments.
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April 29, 2024
Turkey Cos. Seek Swift Appeal Of Burford's Ability To Sue
Some of the country's largest turkey producers have asked an Illinois federal court for permission to immediately appeal a March ruling that allows a Burford Capital investment unit to pursue price-fixing allegations against them, arguing the Seventh Circuit should weigh in on whether the investor is permitted to bring such a claim.
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April 29, 2024
Ex-Man City Player Benjamin Mendy Pays £710K Tax Debt
Former Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy avoided bankruptcy on Monday after paying a £710,000 ($892,000) tax bill minutes before a court hearing to determine whether an order should be made.
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April 29, 2024
Supreme Court Declines To Hear 'Unusual' FCRA Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up PHH Mortgage Corp.'s call for review of a Fourth Circuit decision allowing a Marine Corps veteran to continue his Fair Credit Reporting Act claims that the company harassed him about his ex-wife's debt on a home they once shared.
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April 26, 2024
Giuliani Seeks Ch. 11 Judge's OK To Appeal $148M Verdict
Rudy Giuliani asked a New York bankruptcy judge on Friday for permission to move forward with an appeal of a $148 million defamation award to two Georgia poll workers he accused of committing ballot fraud.
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April 26, 2024
Cannabis Retailer MedMen Files For Bankruptcy In Canada
American cannabis retailer MedMen Enterprises Inc. said Friday that it had filed for bankruptcy in Canada, citing CA$561.5 million ($410.4 million) of liabilities months after the company's stock plunged and executives departed despite having sold off assets to raise money.
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April 26, 2024
ABI President Chris Ward Talks Fees, Purdue Pharma, Phillies
Chris Ward of Polsinelli LLP, the new president of the American Bankruptcy Institute, expects high interest rates to continue dogging debt-laden companies this year. He's also skeptical a U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting nonconsensual releases in the bankruptcy case of Purdue Pharma LP would radically alter third parties' ability to get liability shields and thinks Chapter 11 has become too expensive, he told Law360 on Friday.
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April 26, 2024
Casa Gets OK For $32.25M Telecom Asset Sale To Fund Ch. 11
A Delaware bankruptcy judge said Friday that she would approve the $32.25 million sale of Casa Systems Inc.'s cloud and radio access network unit after an auction more than doubled the winner's initial offer for the assets, despite concerns about how the process played out.
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April 26, 2024
Umpqua Bank Seeks Win On Investors' Ponzi Aiding Claims
Oregon-based Umpqua Bank has asked a San Francisco federal judge to toss claims that it aided and abetted a $250 million real estate Ponzi scheme, arguing the investors who brought the suit saw that their funds were put into "legitimate" investments.
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April 26, 2024
50 Cent's GC Beats Wiretap Claim In Liquor Feud, For Now
A Manhattan judge on Friday threw out a claim that the general counsel for rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson illegally recorded a former Beam Suntory Inc. sales contractor during an embezzlement investigation, but allowed the consultant to revise his pleading.
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April 26, 2024
Judge Agrees To OK Sticky's Initial Ch. 11 Requests
A Delaware bankruptcy judge agreed Friday to sign off on modified versions of first-day requests from popular New York-area chicken restaurant chain Sticky's in the company's streamlined Chapter 11 case, asking Sticky's to submit revised orders by 5 p.m.
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April 26, 2024
Small Biz Ch. 11s, Student Loans Topics Of NACBA Meeting
Consumer bankruptcy lawyers have gathered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to discuss current and emerging issues, challenges and opportunities at the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys' 2024 conference.
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April 26, 2024
Bankrupt NYC Building Owners, Rent-Strikers Settle Claims
The bankrupt owners of several Manhattan apartment buildings asked a New York federal bankruptcy court to approve the settlement of the claims of rent-striking tenants, the tenants' debt and a related adversary proceeding.
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April 26, 2024
'Nuisance' Atty Neighbor Wins Ch. 11 Eviction Stay
Norman Resnicow, the lawyer and alleged "nuisance neighbor" who lives next to actor Justin Theroux, has won his bid in New York bankruptcy court to hold off his co-op building from evicting him because of his Chapter 11 automatic stay.
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April 26, 2024
Sacks Weston's Ch. 11 Bid Axed Over Likely Financial Decline
A federal judge has rejected Philadelphia-based firm Sacks Weston LLC's plan to become solvent and dismissed its bankruptcy petition this week, saying the firm's financial decline is likely to continue.
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April 25, 2024
Texas Judge Dismisses Rest Of Bitcoin Miner Investor Suit
A Texas federal judge has dismissed the rest of a lawsuit from bitcoin miner investors against Core Scientific's directors and officers after the execs asked the judge to reconsider an earlier decision to trim the suit but leave it standing.
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April 25, 2024
Ill-Fated Chicken Co. With Over $50M Debt Gets Ch. 7 Lifeline
A Delaware bankruptcy judge agreed to let the Chapter 7 trustee for Cooks Venture Inc., a poultry business that offered meat from specially-bred chickens, access post-petition financing Thursday after he said the birds would eat one another unless the company could buy chicken feed.
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April 25, 2024
The Gateway Pundit Parent Co. Hits Ch. 11 In Florida
The parent company of far-right media outlet The Gateway Pundit has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection amid legal liabilities stemming from the company's coverage of the 2020 presidential election, including false claims that two Georgia election workers engaged in ballot fraud.
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April 25, 2024
Benefytt Successor Pursues Del.'s Bankruptcy Alternative
Three affiliates of Benefytt Technologies have asked Delaware's Chancery Court for assignment for the benefit of creditors, a state-administered restructuring option, with $41 million in unsecured debt and $20 million worth of liens, saying the ripple effects of the health technology company's Chapter 11 drove them under.
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April 25, 2024
Shoes For Crews Ch. 11 Sale Plan Keeps Creditor Challenge
Bankrupt nonslip shoes retailer Shoes For Crews reached an agreement with the U.S. Trustee's Office Thursday in Delaware to preserve the rights of creditors to challenge prepetition liens in its Chapter 11 case for the statutorily required period while pursuing a sale of its assets.