To access this content, a subscription to Bankruptcy Authority is required.

Expert Analysis

Bankruptcy Courts May Offer Relief For Tariff-Driven Distress

The Bankruptcy Code and the customs laws interact in complex ways that make bankruptcy a powerful, albeit limited,... (more story)

What New CFPB Oversight Limits Would Mean For 4 Markets

As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau continues to centralize its resources, proposals to alter the definiti... (more story)

Advice For 1st-Gen Lawyers Entering The Legal Profession

Nikki Hurtado at The Ferraro Law Firm tells her story of being a first-generation lawyer and how others who begin ... (more story)

Large Cap More

Calif. Says Defunct SVB Owes State Over $76M In Taxes

The former parent company of Silicon Valley Bank owes the state of California upward of $76 million in taxes on income from a portfolio of securities for years leading up to the bank's failure, a state taxing ... (more story)

Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

Last week at the Delaware Court of Chancery, a bankruptcy administrator for a generic drugmaker formerly known as Teligent was told he can proceed with duty of oversight claims against most former officers and... (more story)

Attys Accused Of Filing Fake Docs In Miss America Dispute

A real estate developer, his associates and his current and past attorneys submitted fake contracts as evidence of their ownership of the company that runs the Miss America pageant in a $500 million lawsuit an... (more story)

Spirit Airlines Cleared To Tap Over $275M To Fund Ch. 11

Budget air carrier Spirit Airlines secured a New York bankruptcy judge's approval Monday of its bid to borrow up to $275 million and use other funds to support the business as Spirit gears up to reject aircraf... (more story)

NY Diocese Wins OK Of Ch. 11 Plan, Yellow Nears Approval

A New York judge authorized the Chapter 11 plan of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester, Yellow Corp.'s newest bankruptcy plan disclosure statement won tentative approval, and Monster.com was given the go-a... (more story)

Modivcare Ch. 11 Gets 7-Member Creditor Committee

The Office of the U.S. Trustee has appointed a seven-member committee of unsecured creditors in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of medical transportation company Modivcare Inc., including an affiliate of the ride-ha... (more story)

Trucking Co. Owners Seek Ch. 15 Nods For Their Bankruptcies

Founders of bankrupt trucking group Pride Group Holdings Inc. have asked a Delaware bankruptcy court to recognize their personal Canadian bankruptcies, saying they filed for Chapter 15 to once again pause liti... (more story)

Not That Zuckerberg: Atty Sues Meta Over FB Page Takedown

Indianapolis bankruptcy attorney Mark S. Zuckerberg is suing Meta Platforms Inc. after his firm's commercial Facebook account was repeatedly suspended because of his shared name with the tech company's CEO and founder.

Sunnova Gets OK For Ch. 11 Deal Over Solar Asset Sales

A Texas bankruptcy judge approved a settlement Friday in the Chapter 11 case of solar panel business Sunnova that resolves a dispute about its sale of solar energy systems by transferring disputed assets to th... (more story)

Ex-Bankruptcy Clients Defend Deal Over Jackson Walker Affair

Former Jackson Walker LLP bankruptcy clients said Friday that a proposed settlement meant to resolve a dispute regarding the concealed romance between a judge and attorney should go through as planned because ... (more story)

Mid Cap More

Atty Tells Disciplinary Panel $250K Demand Wasn't Blackmail

A Pennsylvania attorney facing discipline for allegedly threatening to blackmail a client's debtor was rightfully trying to collect on a long-standing, highly litigated debt, a state disciplinary hearing panel heard Monday.

23andMe's Ch. 11 Sale Flouted State Privacy Law, Calif. Says

The state of California has asked a Missouri federal judge to undo the $305 million bankruptcy sale of consumer DNA testing group 23andMe, arguing it sidestepped state consumer data protections.

Near Ch. 11 Litigation Trustee Sues MobileFuse In Del.

A litigation trustee for bankrupt data analytics company Near Intelligence Inc. has sued New York-based digital ad company MobileFuse LLC in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Delaware, alleging a multiyear circula... (more story)

Nikola Ch. 11 Plan OK'd Despite Founder's Pardon Objection

A Delaware bankruptcy judge Friday approved the Chapter 11 plan of electric-truck maker Nikola Corp., overruling an objection from the company's former CEO that was tied to his treatment under the plan and a p... (more story)

Dolphin Co. Unit Scores Final Approval For $129M DIP

A Delaware bankruptcy judge granted final approval Friday to a bankruptcy financing request from an insolvent subsidiary of The Dolphin Co., allowing the debtor to access up to $129 million, in a ruling that w... (more story)

Conn. Biotech Hits Ch. 11 With $2.7M Debt After Patent Suit

A Connecticut biotech company has filed a voluntary Chapter 11 petition claiming at least $2.7 million in liabilities, mostly debts to Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and Verrill Dana LLP, after both law... (more story)

Rochester Diocese's $246M Abuse Settlement Plan Approved

A New York bankruptcy judge on Friday approved the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester's $246 million Chapter 11 plan to the sound of applause as a six-year-old effort to craft a plan to pay sexual abuse claim... (more story)

Colo. Developer Says Wash. Atty Botched Bankruptcy Case

A Colorado company has hit a law firm and one of its former bankruptcy attorneys with a legal malpractice suit in Washington federal court, alleging that the defendants' "negligence" caused the business to los... (more story)

San Francisco Archdiocese Claimants Must Refile Affiliate Suit

A California bankruptcy judge on Thursday told the unsecured creditors committee in the Chapter 11 of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to refile a complaint seeking to declare parish assets estate property, sa... (more story)

Solar Co. Mosaic Gets OK For Debt-For-Equity Ch. 11 Plan

A Texas bankruptcy judge Thursday approved residential solar panel financing firm Mosaic's plan to reorganize and hand ownership of its loan servicing business to its secured lender, after no buyers came forwa... (more story)