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May 24, 2024
Weinstein Atty Trying To Chill Retrial Testimony, DA Says
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has argued that a lawyer for Harvey Weinstein violated ethics rules by publicly accusing one of the movie mogul's alleged rape victims of perjury in an "obvious" attempt to dissuade her from testifying again at an upcoming retrial.
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May 24, 2024
Biden Urges 1st Circ. To Find Debt Cap Challenge Moot
The Biden administration asked the First Circuit to affirm a finding that a government workers' union lacks standing to challenge the debt ceiling's constitutionality and that its case was further rendered moot by passage of a deal to suspend the spending limit until January.
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May 23, 2024
Shoes For Crews Gets OK For $290M Credit Bid Sale
A Delaware bankruptcy judge said at a hearing Thursday that she would approve a $290 million credit bid sale of Shoes For Crews to its first-lien lenders after no other bidders emerged for the nonslip shoes retailer.
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May 23, 2024
Who's Who On The NJ Bankruptcy Bench, Part 2
Chief U.S. District Judge Renée Marie Bumb said last week that New Jersey saw the second-most Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings in the nation over the last year — up from sixth the year before — with 16% growth in overall filings and a 133% increase in Chapter 11 filings.
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May 23, 2024
Modells Reaches $22.7M Ch. 11 Settlement With Ex-CEO
Modell's Sporting Goods' liquidation trust reached a $22.7 million settlement with the company's former CEO Mitchell Modell and several family-owned, real estate-owning affiliates, which would resolve the trust's claims in years-long adversary proceedings against the company's executives.
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May 23, 2024
Meet The Attorneys In Red Lobster's Ch. 11
A team of lawyers from King & Spalding LLP and Berger Singerman LLP are representing seafood restaurant chain Red Lobster in its Florida Chapter 11 case.
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May 23, 2024
Ex-Judge Pushed False Narrative On Atty Romance, Firm Says
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David R. Jones of Texas, who resigned last year after his secret relationship with a Jackson Walker LLP partner was revealed, attempted to head off rumors about the relationship by asking the firm to file a false, partial disclosure in 2022, the firm alleged.
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May 23, 2024
Houston Law Firm Wants To DQ Creditors' Counsel In Ch. 11
Troubled MMA Law Firm PLLC is seeking to stop another firm from representing its bankruptcy creditors, arguing that MMA's principal had previously spoken with the other firm as a prospective client and had shared confidential information that now could be used against his firm.
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May 23, 2024
DC Judge Bars Giuliani From Defaming Ga. Poll Workers
A D.C. federal judge has entered an injunction barring Rudy Giuliani from repeating lies that two Georgia poll workers meddled with the 2020 presidential election, resolving a second lawsuit the election workers launched after securing a $146 million judgment against the former New York City mayor.
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May 23, 2024
Jackson Lewis Questions Role In Wage Suit After Ch. 11
Jackson Lewis PC attorneys were unsure if they were able to keep representing more than a dozen Pennsylvania nursing homes as an unpaid-wage case approaches a critical deadline, telling a federal court during a conference Thursday that the Bankruptcy Code suspended their service to a group of defendants who filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier in May.
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May 23, 2024
Alex Jones Atty Escapes Suspension, For Now
The Connecticut Appellate Court on Thursday threw out the six-month suspension of Norm Pattis, the lead attorney in Infowars host Alex Jones' Sandy Hook Elementary School defamation trial, ordering new proceedings against the attorney for supervising the transmission of the victims' confidential records to other Jones lawyers.
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May 22, 2024
EB-5 Investors Say Developers' $150K Shouldn't Go To Attys
Chinese investors looking to recoup a nearly $40 million investment in failed developments urged an Illinois federal court against allowing bankrupt developers to use $150,000 in assets to pay the developers' attorneys, saying the lawyers shouldn't be paid before the investors.
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May 22, 2024
Who's Who On The NJ Bankruptcy Bench, Part 1
New Jersey saw the second-most Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings in the nation over the last year. Here, Law360 takes a look at the judges leading the increasingly busy bankruptcy court, starting with those sitting in Trenton and Camden.
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May 22, 2024
Cleaning Products Maker Supply Source Files For Ch. 11
Cleaning products company Supply Source Enterprises has told a Delaware bankruptcy court that it is seeking a sale in Chapter 11 to deal with $180 million in debt after overestimating the post-pandemic market for cleaning products.
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May 22, 2024
Meet The Attys In Biotech Co. Gamida's Ch. 11 And Ch. 15
A team of attorneys from Blank Rome LLP is representing biotech company Gamida Cell Inc. in its Delaware Chapter 11 bankruptcy and its Israeli parent company in its Chapter 15 insolvency recognition proceedings.
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May 22, 2024
Fraud Defendant Strikes Deal To End Ch. 11, Sell House
A corporation owned by the defendant in a $93 million securities fraud case Wednesday told a Florida bankruptcy judge it has reached a deal to end its Chapter 11 case and sell the multimillion-dollar Coral Gables home that is its sole asset.
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May 22, 2024
Biotech Co. Gamida Gets OK For Prepack Ch. 11 Plan
A Delaware bankruptcy judge said she would approve a prepackaged confirmation plan for Gamida Cell Inc. that would turn the biotechnology company over to its largest creditor.
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May 22, 2024
Soured Partnership Tanks Dallas Tower Weakened By COVID
In the fourth story in a series on distressed office properties in various U.S. markets, Law360 Real Estate Authority examines how a solid office building in an otherwise strong market — Dallas' Uptown — started showing cracks from COVID-19 and controversy.
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May 22, 2024
Tommy's Boats Hits Ch. 11 After Alleged M&T Bank Default
Boat and water sports retailer Tommy's Boats has filed for Chapter 11 protection in Texas bankruptcy court, listing up to $500 million in debt after allegedly breaching an agreement with lender M&T Bank.
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May 21, 2024
Full 5th Circ. Urged To Rethink Blocking Student Loan Rule
The U.S. Department of Education has asked the full Fifth Circuit to reconsider a recent preliminary injunction a three-judge panel ordered blocking changes to a program providing student loan forgiveness to borrowers defrauded by higher education institutions. It said the panel wrongly held that the department doesn't have the authority to determine whether a borrower has a valid defense to repayment.
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May 21, 2024
In Red Lobster's Tale Of Ch. 11, Shrimp May Be A Red Herring
It was more than just all-you-can-eat shrimp specials that forced casual dining chain Red Lobster into bankruptcy on Sunday — higher costs, lower foot traffic and a failure to appeal to younger customers were all additional pressures that experts say could lead other small and midsize restaurant brands to consider bankruptcy in the coming year.
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May 21, 2024
Red Lobster Gets OK To Tap $40M Ch. 11 Loan
A Florida bankruptcy judge Tuesday gave seafood chain Red Lobster interim permission to draw on $40 million in Chapter 11 financing the company says is necessary to keep its restaurants running while it seeks a sale.
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May 21, 2024
SPAC Investor's Suit Changes Came Too Late, Chancery Rules
A shareholder of a special-purpose acquisition company that merged with a now-defunct medical technology company in 2021 waited too long to amend his year-old proposed class action and must defend the case against a motion to dismiss in June, Delaware's Court of Chancery said Tuesday.
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May 21, 2024
Variety Of Cases Propelled Rise In New Jersey Ch. 11 Filings
The cases that have made the New Jersey bankruptcy court the second busiest in the nation have run the gamut from nationwide retail chains, major real estate players and Johnson & Johnson's mass tort talc spinoff to genetic labs and cryptocurrency platforms.
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May 21, 2024
Giuliani, Poll Workers Ink Deal In Bankruptcy Defamation Suit
Rudy Giuliani and two Georgia election workers reached an agreement Tuesday in a lawsuit filed in his bankruptcy case that would bar the former Donald Trump lawyer from repeating lies that the pair committed ballot fraud, claims for which Giuliani was held liable for defamation last year.