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2 Options For Sackler Family After High Court Purdue Ruling

After the U.S. Supreme Court recently blocked Purdue Pharma's plan to shield the family that owns the company from... (more story)

Revisiting Scalia's 'What's It To You?' After Kaiser Ruling

While the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Truck Insurance Exchange v. Kaiser allows insurers to be conside... (more story)

Florida Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q2

The second quarter of 2024 brought two notable bills that will affect Florida's banking and finance community acro... (more story)

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Settlement Urged Before Decision In Invitae Debt Deal Row

A New Jersey bankruptcy judge Tuesday urged Invitae and its unsecured creditors committee to continue trying to reach a settlement before he issues a preliminary ruling Friday on whether the committee has stan... (more story)

5th Circ. Presses SEC On Whistleblower Award Calculation

The Fifth Circuit heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case accusing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of shortchanging two whistleblowers who uncovered the largest fraud in Texas history, with one judg... (more story)

Purdue Plans 'High-Speed' Bid For New Ch. 11 Plan

Purdue Pharma told a New York bankruptcy judge Tuesday that it plans a two-month "high-speed, high-stakes" attempt to replace the Chapter 11 plan shot down by the U.S. Supreme Court last month before unleashin... (more story)

FTX Bahamas Says Celsius Can't Ask US Court To OK Suit

The foreign representatives of FTX Digital Markets Ltd. asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to block the litigation administrator of Celsius Network LLC from suing the company in New York, saying the purpose of ... (more story)

3 States Ask High Court To Freeze Biden's Debt Relief Plan

Three state attorneys general applied to the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to vacate the stay of a nationwide injunction in an effort to pause implementation of a $475 billion student loan debt forgiveness progra... (more story)

2 Cooperators In Bankman-Fried Case To Be Sentenced In Fall

Two former FTX executives who pled guilty and testified for the government at the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange's founder, will be sentenced this fall, a New York federal ju... (more story)

EV Co. Fisker To Get OK For Week's Worth Of Cash In Ch. 11

A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Tuesday said he would give electric-vehicle maker Fisker Group Inc. approval to use cash collateral for another week in its Chapter 11 case after the debtor reassured unsecured c... (more story)

Ex-DOJ Atty Tells Guo Jury Of Illicit Extradition Campaign

Prominent Chinese Communist Party critic Miles Guo capped off his defense to $1 billion fraud charges Tuesday with testimony from a former U.S. Department of Justice attorney, who admitted to participating in ... (more story)

Ex-NRA Finance Chief Agrees To 10-Year NY Nonprofit Ban

A former chief financial officer of the National Rifle Association has agreed not to serve as a fiduciary of a New York nonprofit for 10 years as part of a settlement in the state attorney general's suit in st... (more story)

Purdue Creditors Look To Sue Sacklers After Justices' Ruling

The official committee of unsecured creditors in the Chapter 11 case of drugmaker Purdue Pharma asked a New York bankruptcy judge on Monday for standing to bring actions against members of the Sackler family t... (more story)

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Pharma Co. Fined $16.9M For Fake Scripts, Ex-VP Arrested

A subsidiary of bankrupt DMK Pharmaceuticals Corp. faces a $16.9 million criminal fine after pleading guilty to conspiring in a scheme to ship drugs using false prescriptions, federal prosecutors announced Tue... (more story)

Glocal Says UpHealth Coerced Acquisition In Ch. 11 Suit

Indian healthcare network Glocal said its majority owner, bankrupt telemedicine tech company UpHealth, lied about business delays and exaggerated its finances as leverage in a 2020 acquisition, alleging in a D... (more story)

Massage Franchise Operator Files Ch. 7 With $32M Debt

The operators of a chain of massage therapy franchises in California and Texas filed for Chapter 7 liquidation in Delaware bankruptcy court with nearly $32 million in debt.

Dentons Advises $115M For Stalking Horse Hotel Buy

Dentons guided the financing for a bankruptcy sale of Brooklyn, New York's, William Vale hotel to EOS Hospitality for $177 million in a stalking horse bid approved by a bankruptcy judge in May.

Reed Smith's Work In Eletson Ch. 11 'Deficient,' Creditors Say

Unsecured creditors of shipping company Eletson asked a New York bankruptcy judge to reject or pare back fees for Reed Smith, arguing that the law firm's work on the shipper's Chapter 11 plan and disclosure st... (more story)

NJ Atty Must Face Claims Over Not Reviving Malpractice Suit

The New Jersey state appeals court reversed a trial court decision Tuesday and reinstated a malpractice case against a solo practitioner who allegedly blew a filing deadline and caused his clients to lose a se... (more story)

Weinstein May Face Nov. Retrial As DA Vets New Rape Claims

Manhattan prosecutors Tuesday said November is a "realistic" date for Harvey Weinstein's retrial on rape charges as they continue to investigate new claims that the disgraced Hollywood producer assaulted other... (more story)

LeClairRyan Trustee Floats Ch. 7 Deals With Ex-Lawyers

The liquidating trustee of shuttered law firm LeClairRyan PLLC on Tuesday proposed two settlements with former attorneys to resolve their roughly $2.1 million in claims for $1.4 million by granting them unsecu... (more story)

Giuliani's Creditors Call Ch. 7 Conversion Bid A 'Delay Game'

Rudy Giuliani's unsecured creditors in his Chapter 11 case on Monday slammed the former New York City mayor's bid in New York bankruptcy court to convert the proceedings to a liquidation, saying the move is ju... (more story)

Bus Co. Coach Gets $8M Stalking-Horse Bid For More Assets

An industrial transportation provider submitted a roughly $8 million stalking-horse offer for some of the remaining assets of intercity bus operator Coach USA, as the insolvent company seeks to sell more of it... (more story)