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Bankruptcy - April, 2009

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• Grace Tries To Quash Libby Claimants' Depositions
• Katz Files $50M Breach Of Contract Against Heller
• Lyondell Must Offer Up Liability Insurance Info: Judge
• Thornburg Mortgage Enters Ch. 11, Starts Liquidation
• Slow Summer Could Bankrupt Travel, Leisure Cos.
• Charter, Spectrum Cases Poised To Set Precedent
• Despite Buyers' Market, 363 Sales Still Prove Complex
• US Trustee Can't Take Over Bayou Ch. 11: 2nd Circ.
• Flurry Of Activity On Day 1 In Chrysler Ch. 11
• Oil Prices Cited In Energy Partners Ch. 11 Filing
• Liquidity Struggles Force Mark IV Into Ch. 11
• Equity Committee Appointed In Pilgrim's Pride Ch. 11
• Hedge Fund Rebuffed In Polaroid Owner Fraud Case
• Tousa Gets OK To Keep Using Cash Collateral
• Weil Gotshal Has Conflict Of Interest: Trump Trustee
• Brooke Trustee Looks To Convert Cases To Ch. 7
• Less Demand, More Competition Sinks US Shipping
• Fowler White Nabs Bankruptcy Pro From Kiesel Hughes
• Subprime Lender Accredited Files For Ch. 11
• Speedy Chrysler Ch. 11 A Pipe Dream: Experts
• Grace Moves To Settle ERISA Action For $10M
• New Journal Register Ch. 11 Plan Draws Objections
• List Of Chrysler's Largest Unsecured Creditors
• Chrysler Ch. 11 A Boon To Attorneys
• Senate Kills Mortgage ‘Cramdown’ Amendment
• Delphi Seeks Gov. Protection Of Chrysler Receivables
• GM Bondholders' Plan Would Put Them In Control
• The Transfer Tax Exemption After Piccadilly
• Broad Jones Day Team To Direct Chrysler Ch. 11
• Amergence Sues Syntax-Brillian Over Olevia Deal
• Following Money Trail, Caribbean Insurer Files Ch. 15
• Tips For Unionized Companies Weighing Bankruptcy
• Source Interlink Seeks $385M As Part Of Ch. 11 Plan
• Newly Bankrupt Tropicana Casino Seeks Fast Auction
• Small Bondholders Protest GM's Debt Swap Proposal
• Obama To Unveil Chrysler's Fate On Thursday
• German Lehman Bros. Affiliate Files For Ch. 15
• Reducing Discovery Costs With Rule 502
• WaMu Sues JPMorgan For Return Of $4B In Deposits
• Deal Gives Worldspace Unsecured Creditors $1.3M
• Dreier To Throw Himself At Court's Mercy
• With $1.7B Bid In Hand, Asarco Files 4th Plan
• Atty Hit With SemGroup Insider Trading Suit
• Fifth Third, JPMorgan, HomeBanc Settle Loan Spat
• Filene's Basement Could Be On Brink Of Ch. 11
• SemGroup Wins Extension On $150M DIP Loan
• Charter Creditors Want In On JPMorgan Default Suit
• Former Lehman Exec Joins Sidley Bankruptcy Team
• Running On Empty: Trademarks And Bankruptcy
• Jilted Heller Workers Add Partners To $32M Suit
• Chrysler Secures Labor Deals As Bankruptcy Looms
• Lehman Unit Sues CDS Partner To Recover $46M
• GM Banks On Debt Swaps In New Restructuring Plan
• Chemtura Gets OK To Buy Back Receivables Portfolio
• HomeBanc Trustee Looks To Hire Special Counsel
• LyondellBasell Joins US Unit In Ch. 11 Proceedings
• US Trustee Slams Charter's Disclosure Statement
• Delphi And The Modification Of Retiree Benefits
• Clawback Letters To Madoff Victims Spark Concern
• Sonnenschein Rates For Treasury Work Slip Out
• Spectrum Brands Settles With Senior Lenders
• Sterlite Gets OK To Buy Bankrupt Asarco For $1.7B
• Ritz Camera Gets Court OK To Hire Conflicts Counsel
• General Growth Adds Subsidiaries To Ch. 11 Filing
• Mich. May Lose Out If Ch. 11 Is In Detroit's Future
• Delphi Buys Time For GM Deal In Race To Reorganize
• Plaintiffs Ask Court To Let WL Homes Suits Proceed
• Heller Creditors Can Sue Banks Over $51M: Judge
• Treasury Preparing Ch. 11 Filing For Chrysler: Report
• New Bidders Vie For Madoff Trading Unit
• Eagle-Picher Must Pay $9M For NM Cleanup: 6th Circ.
• Citing Labor Shortages, Produce Co. Files For Ch. 11
• Portrait Co. Asks To Toss Post-Sale Trademark Suit
• GM May Miss $1B Bond Payment Deadline: CFO
• Alliance Trustee Ends GMAC Mortgage Servicing Deal
• Orrick Seeks Sanctions Against Whiteford, Energy Co.
• Antiguan Stanford Liquidators Seek OK For Ch. 15
• Star Tribune Asks For More Time On Ch. 11 Plan
• Bankrupt Student Lender Sued Over ARS Involvement
• Magna Wins Court's OK For Trimmed DIP Financing
• Funds Took $255M Before Madoff Collapse: Trustee
• Lead Plaintiff Tapped In Investors' Case V. Solar Co.
• How Voidable Preferences Can Kill The Perfect Deal
• BearingPoint OK To Continue Using Cash Collateral
• Judge Freezes $137M In Lehman CDS Claim Spat
• Motor Coach Exits Ch. 11 In New Hands
• Credit Crunch Pushes TitleMax Into Bankruptcy
• US Energy Unit's Ch. 11 Plan Includes New UK Wells
• AbitibiBowater Gets Access To $206M In DIP Cash
• Asyst Technologies Boots Up For Bankruptcy
• Prudential Insurer Loses Cert Bid In Asbestos Case
• AHM Reserves $1.7M For WARN Claims
• MEC Loses Stalking Horse Bidder After Objections
• VeraSun Squares $107M Bond Debt
• Tightened Credit Pushes Dayton Superior Into Ch. 11
• Bankrupt Lender Fremont Settles With Mass., Calif.
• Six Flags Urges Debt Exchange To Avoid Early Default
• Quebecor Reorganization Plan Calls For New Board
• Eckert Grabs 12-Atty WolfBlock Office In Pa.
• CEO Says Ch. 11 More Likely Than Not For GM
• Polaroid Sells Assets In Drawn-Out Auction Process
• Amendment OK'd In Delphi Case
• Aventine Wins Access To $15M In DIP Cash
• Buffets Holdings Gets Green Light For Ch. 11 Plan
• General Growth Scores Interim Use Of Cash Collateral
• LifeLock Loses Bid To Sue Heller For Malpractice
• Is Your D&O Policy Bankruptcy-Ready?
• BearingPoint Gets OK For $350M Sale To Deloitte
• Calif. Slams Barclays' Disclosure For LandSource
• For Commercial Market, Mall Giant May Be 1st Domino
• WaMu Hires Consultant To Perform IP Valuation
• UK Firm To Liquidate Antiguan Stanford Unit
• Blaming Internet, Newsprint Co. Files For Ch. 11
• Spectrum Brands Disclosure Statement Approved
• CEO Schemes Drove SemGroup Into Ch. 11: Examiner
• 1031 Tax Group Creditors Look To Retain Cozen
• Pacific Energy Creditors Pick Pepper Hamilton
• Lyondell Can Pay MTBE Settlement Share: Judge
• Parent Co. Owes Asarco $1B Plus Mine Shares: Judge
• NJ Plaintiffs Seek Insurance Info In Lyondell Case
• 1-800-Mattress Gets OK To Tap More DIP Cash
• WARN Act Suit V. Heller Ehrman Sent To ADR
• Quinn Emanuel Lures Akin Gump Litigation Co-Chair
• Creditors Balk At BearingPoint Unit Sale To Deloitte
• Magna Balks At Hedge Fund's Bid For Examiner
• Dreier Unsecured Creditors Win Access To Exhibits
• Pacific Energy's Unsecured Creditors Tap Steptoe
• Weil Gotshal Submits $55M Bill In Lehman Ch. 11
• Liquidating AtheroGenics Sells Off All Its Assets
• Liquidating Trustee Appointed In All American Ch. 11
• Bankruptcy Lawyer, Obama Adviser Joins DLA Piper
• Madoff UK Fund Files Ch. 15 To Recover Assets
• Rembrandt Seeks Green Light For Charter Patent Spat
• Sun-Times Seeks Approval For Bankruptcy Hires
• Flying J Asks Court To Boost DIP Package To $11.5M
• Grupo Mexico Ups Offer In Bidding Battle For Asarco
• Trustee Makes Grab For Alliance Bank Account Info
• Refco Trustee Claims V. PwC, Mayer Brown Dismissed
• BNY's Challenge To Lyondell DIP Package Nixed
• BearingPoint Seeks To Avoid Indemnifying Directors
• Pacific Energy Creditors Blast Lazard, Albrecht Fees
• Sunwest Creditors Hope To Stay SEC Ponzi Case
• Trustee Objects To Deloitte's Role In Primus Ch. 11
• IdleAire Seeks Ch. 7 Conversion After Asset Sale
• Aventine Wins Bid For Cash, 10 Other 1st-Day Motions
• Investors File Ch. 7 Petition Against Madoff
• The Problems With The Mortgage Bailout Plan
• Treasury, GM Hammer Out 'Surgical' Ch. 11 Plan
• Faegre & Benson Snags Holme Roberts Team
• Tribune Financing Amendments Approved
• Duane Morris Snags 18 More WolfBlock Lawyers
• Dreier Receiver Issues $1.5M Bill For Fees, Expenses
• Bankrupt Polaroid Snaps Up Higher $73M Bid
• Oneida Can't Discharge PBGC Fees: 2nd Circ.
• Agents Sue Brooke Lending Arm For Fraud, RICO
• Creditors Well-Placed In All American Liquidation
• Indalex Reaches $85M DIP Financing Deal
• Salvaging Values From Crashing Companies
• Energy, Bankruptcy Pro Rejoins Greenberg Traurig
• Aventine Is Latest Ethanol Producer To Enter Ch. 11
• VeraSun Looks To Pay Secured Debts Early In Ch. 11
• SEC Fights Effort To Push Madoff Into Bankruptcy
• Monaco Coach Seeks To Auction Off RV Resorts
• Mortgage Lenders Gets More Time To Sue RBS
• Sale Set For Madoff's Market-Making Unit
• $70M Settles Samsung, Spansion Memory Patent Spat
• Epix To File For Bankruptcy If Restructuring Flops
• Corus Bankshares' Future Looks Grim: Auditor
• Syntax-Brillian Seeks Approval For Taiwan Counsel
• Charter To Seek Dismissal Of JPMorgan Suit Over $8B
• Lyondell Creditors Will Investigate Basell Merger
• Polaroid To Seek New Bids From Patriarch, Rival
• Axium Trustee Sues Former Execs Over Huge Losses
• Bankrupt US Energy Gets OK To Use Cash Collateral
• Simpson Thacher Snags White & Case Bankruptcy Pro
• Lehman Fights To Keep 'Erroneous' €58M Payment
• PLVTZ Trustee Asks To Streamline Objection Process
• Lowenstein Demands Payment From Ascendia
• Energy Partners Issues Another Bankruptcy Warning
• Landsource Unit Sues Dolce View Over $45M Deal
• Patton Boggs Nabs Foley & Lardner Bankruptcy Team
• Bank Joins Effort To Nix Tronox Ch. 11 Equity Panel
• Ex-Workers Lose Appeal Of Claims V. First Magnus
• $11M Loss Pushes Nova Biosource Into Ch. 11
• Magna Creditors Committee Balks At $180M Sale Plan
• Some Creditors Cry Foul As Bankrupt Polaroid Sold
• Pleading Standards Under Section 544(b)(1)
• Facilitating Workouts With Registration Exemptions
• Grupo Mexico Faces $6B Damages In Asarco Case
• Hurricanes, Oil Prices Force Saratoga Into Ch. 11
• Lehman, BofA Drop 1 Issue From $509M Setoff Fight
• Journal Register, JPMorgan Protest Creditors' Probe
• Weil Gotshal Adds Bankruptcy Pro From Chadbourne
• Greenberg Traurig's $1M Fee Bid In Syntax Case OK’d
• Mirant, Southern Settle Spinoff Spat For $202M
• US Rep. Pushes To Kill '05 Bankruptcy Code Reforms
• Obama Auto Team Seeks Delay On GM-Delphi Deal
• AICCO Wins Premium Payout Spat In Silver State Ch. 7
• Thornburg Mortgage To Shut Down, File Ch. 11
• Family Feud In Young Ch. 11 Ensnares Sonnenschein
• Adorno & Yoss Aligns With NY Bankruptcy Boutique
• Real Estate Bankruptcy Cramdowns
• Visteon Says It May Be Headed Toward Ch. 11
• Charter Can Tap $640M In Cash Collateral: Judge
• Barnes & Thornburg Gets Bankruptcy Veteran Back
• Court Approves Sun-Times' First-Day Motions
• Customers Move To Force Madoff Into Ch. 7
• Silicon Graphics Back In Ch. 11, This Time With Deal
• New Century Trustee Seeks $1B From KPMG
• Kelson Bid For $15M Breakup Fee Nixed