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Under The Radar: Bankruptcy News You May Have Missed
A major producer of gypsum products is trying to get a sinkhole claim that is roughly two decades old tossed, a trust for FTX creditors is trying to claw back $90 million in frozen funds, and a talc miner's insurers are asking a court to reject its bankruptcy plan.
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Meet The Attys Assisting Village Roadshow In Ch. 11
Village Roadshow Entertainment Group, a production company behind blockbusters like "The Matrix" and "The Great Gatsby," has put together a team of lawyers from Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP and Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP to help it pursue a sale amid Chapter 11.

Exela Pulled Into Ch. 11 By Stiff Competition, Pandemic Woes
Competing businesses, a ratings downgrade in 2019, impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic and a 2022 network outage led automation service business Exela Technologies to seek bankruptcy protection in early March this year, with a prearranged Chapter 11 reorganization that will be funded by noteholders.
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Carlton Fields faces a disqualification bid for allegedly having a conflict of interest in a $500 million lawsuit regarding the ownership of the company that runs the Miss America pageant.
Furniture and appliance retailer Conn's Inc. received a Texas bankruptcy judge's approval Monday to pay a group of former W.S. Badcock dealers about $2 million to settle their potential claims in the Chapter 1... (more story)
Los Angeles federal prosecutors said Girardi Keese's former head of accounting should spend 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to assisting Tom Girardi in siphoning clients' settlement funds and what the... (more story)
The committee of unsecured creditors of bankrupt retailer Conn's Inc. has urged a Texas bankruptcy judge to reject the company's bid to amend its debtor-in-possession financing to pay a lender $4 million to pr... (more story)
Bankrupt drugmaker Purdue Pharma LP received a further extension of a bar on litigation against the company and its owners in the Sackler family as the debtor pursues a late May approval of a disclosure statem... (more story)
The former director of the Department of Justice's U.S. Trustee Program, which oversees bankruptcy proceedings, has filed an appeal of her termination, saying it was without cause and violated her due process ... (more story)
The Third Circuit's April argument lineup springs into action with securities litigation brought by Walmart investors claiming they were misled about the government's opioid investigation into the company, and... (more story)
The U.S. Supreme Court heard five arguments this week, including in cases over the proper venue for challenges to EPA actions and the potential revival of a doctrine not used since the 1930s, while also issuin... (more story)
FTX has $11.4 billion in funds ready to be handed out to creditors, but it still has much work to do to sort out the massive number of claims asserted against the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange, an attorney... (more story)
Creditors of the Archdiocese of San Francisco will have access to records of the archdiocese's independent review board after a California bankruptcy judge said production of the documents serve a valid purpos... (more story)
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West Virginia coal producer White Forest Resources Inc. has called upon attorneys from Chipman Brown Cicero & Cole LLP to see it through the Chapter 11 process as it looks to sell one of its two mines.
A cannabis producer in California has moved to enter receivership in state court, disclosing more than $173 million in liabilities and saying a 2023 merger with its parent company proved to be a "financial disaster."
Sustainability-focused financial services company Aspiration Partners Inc. filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware, less than a month after founder Joseph Sanberg was arrested and hit with federal fraud charges.
Ejecutivos de Turismo Sustentable SA de CV, a business related to park and dolphin habitat operator The Dolphin Company, filed for bankruptcy Monday in Delaware with 14 affiliates and cited over $100 million in debt.
Heritage Coal and its owner KTRV have filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware, saying the former owner has asserted ownership over the debtor's assets and taken steps to sabotage and vandalize its mining equipment.
A Chapter 7 trustee in the case of government contractor Team Systems International is opposing the withdrawal of law firm Cross & Simon from its representation of the defendants in ongoing adversary proceedin... (more story)
A Chinese pool parts supplier can't reverse a jury verdict for false advertising and deceptive business practices, a North Carolina federal judge has said, finding the company tried to bring new arguments that... (more story)
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Friday approved Azzur Group Holdings LLC's plan to award company executives at least $1.3 million if a Chapter 11 sale yields at least $56 million in proceeds, over the objection... (more story)
A New York bankruptcy judge on Friday confirmed the Chapter 11 plan of the developer of the Margaritaville resort in Times Square, as he played the resort's namesake song during a hearing.
A mediator appointed in a New Jersey hospital operator's Chapter 11 told a Delaware bankruptcy judge that discussions to close the gap on holdout objections to its reorganization plan have hit a wall.