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Monthly farm-related Chapter 12 filings soared in April to a more than six-year high, with more likely on the horizon, amid an overall increase in all bankruptcies as fuel prices and other costs continue to rise, according to data from Epiq AACER.
Mexico-based marine oil rig service provider Demar is seeking U.S. recognition from a Texas bankruptcy judge for its Mexican restructuring proceeding, assisted by a team from Sequor Law PA.
For small business owners across the country, getting stuck in bankruptcy for years can come down to whether an individual judge thinks a nonvoting creditor class is a mathematical absurdity or a bar to a consensual plan.
An Alabama hospital and Blue Cross Blue Shield crossed swords over whether the insurer's reimbursement rates were preventing the hospital's emergence from bankruptcy, a locomotive supplier can take $2 million ... (more story)
A former attorney with Clark Partington Hart Larry Bond & Stackhouse has moved his bankruptcy and creditors' rights cases and complex business litigation practice to Phelps Dunbar LLP's Pensacola, Florida, office.
Auto parts maker First Brands Group will seek conditional approval of its Chapter 11 plan disclosure statement Tuesday after making significant amendments to the document prior to a Wednesday hearing in Texas ... (more story)
A New York bankruptcy judge on Wednesday agreed to allow 13 late-filed claims to move forward in former pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma's Chapter 11 after its plan took effect earlier this month.
The U.S. Trustee's Office asked a Texas bankruptcy judge to withhold approval of home shopping company QVC's Chapter 11 plan, saying its method for establishing creditor buy-in for releases is inappropriate.
Spencer Fane LLP announced that an experienced bankruptcy attorney has joined the firm's Plano, Texas, office as a partner following a stint with Dentons.
A Texas bankruptcy judge said Wednesday he would call an evidentiary hearing on White & Case's motion to hold Modivcare in contempt connected to a Chapter 11 fee dispute, after the firm accused the reorganized... (more story)
PHL Variable Insurance Co. life insurance policyholders on Tuesday accused Connecticut's interim insurance commissioner of bankrolling the struggling insurer's rehabilitation by receiving millions without guar... (more story)
The Archdiocese of Baltimore and a group of child sexual abuse claimants have both filed proposed Chapter 11 plans in the archdiocese's bankruptcy, one envisioning abuse claims trusts with at least roughy $169... (more story)
A coalition of 24 attorneys general and two governors are challenging a rule recently promulgated by the U.S. Department of Education, alleging in a complaint in Maryland federal court Tuesday that it unlawful... (more story)
Bankrupt data center operator RELLIS Campus Data and Research Center LLC filed proposed bidding and sale procedures late Wednesday in Texas bankruptcy court that envision a sale approval hearing by June 22.
Warrior Technologies, a company that provides oilfield and trucking services, filed for Chapter 11 protection in Texas bankruptcy court on Thursday with about $38 million in secured debt, blaming its distress ... (more story)
A landlord of a bankrupt wind farm pile-maker appealed a decision by a New Jersey federal judge granting final approval to the debtor's postpetition financing package.
Bankrupt home lending broker Impac Mortgage Holdings received final approval Wednesday for a $5 million loan in its Chapter 11 case as it pursues a restructuring of its debt.
Furniture retailer American Signature Inc. has secured a Delaware bankruptcy judge's approval for the $7.2 million sale of its federal tariff refund claims, covering about 77% of tariffs it paid that were stru... (more story)
Two former executives of bankrupt telecommunications company DZS Inc. have reached a $2.9 million deal to resolve proposed class action claims the company concealed "egregious accounting misconduct," hurting i... (more story)
Cryptocurrency platform BlockFills has asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge not to appoint an examiner and Chapter 11 trustee in its case, arguing the private equity firm that requested the examiner did not raise... (more story)
A Florida federal bankruptcy judge approved performance-based bonuses to a group of workers of a Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen franchise operator, saying the program is key to maximizing the value of the debtor ah... (more story)
A pair of creditors of bankrupt battery recycler Ascend Elements Inc. asked a Texas judge to convert the company's case to a Chapter 7 liquidation late Tuesday, saying the company has no access to funding and ... (more story)
A man who found himself on the wrong side of a more than $15 million default judgment for pirating movies through his virtual private network provider and then filed for bankruptcy urged a Florida federal cour... (more story)
Amy Epstein Gluck
Every morning I let The New York Times humble me with word games, which offer a chance to recalibrate my brain bef... (more story)
Melanie Oxhorn
Law school often skips over explicitly teaching students how to determine what kind of problem a case presents bef... (more story)
Luke Hasskamp
In Cumulus v. Nielsen, the Second Circuit is considering a structural pattern in which a monopolist exploits upstr... (more story)