January 31, 2025
Two groups of families of victims in the Sandy Hook school shooting are fighting deposition and document requests from right-wing fabulist Alex Jones ahead of a hearing Wednesday on a settlement between the groups.
January 21, 2025
Rudy Giuliani has turned over assets for a $148 million defamation judgment to former Georgia poll workers, following his absence at a recent trial. A Delaware bankruptcy judge criticized Dormify's founder for skipping a hearing on the retailer's Chapter 11 case. The FDIC sued Silicon Valley Bank's ex-CEO and other executives, alleging they mismanaged the company in the lead-up to its collapse in 2023. Meanwhile, a failed bidder for Alex Jones' Infowars increased its offer, as The Onion's parent company prepared a revised bid of its own.
January 13, 2025
A failed bidder for conspiracy-monger Alex Jones' Infowars has more than doubled the amount it would pay to acquire the website, and the parent company of satirical news site The Onion is preparing to submit its own revised bid, counsel for the trustee in Jones' Chapter 7 case said at a hearing in Texas bankruptcy court Monday.
December 17, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to throw out nonconsensual third-party releases in opioid maker Purdue Pharma's Chapter 11 reverberated through the bankruptcy domain in unexpected ways this year, but it was just one among many major events to shape bankruptcy in 2024.
December 16, 2024
A Texas court blocked an attempt from satirical news outlet The Onion to buy conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' radio show, and a racketeering suit against Jackson Walker LLP and Kirkland & Ellis LLP over allegations they profited from former bankruptcy Judge David R. Jones' romantic relationship with a member of the bankruptcy bar was dismissed.
December 11, 2024
A Texas bankruptcy judge Tuesday denied a request by the trustee of the Alex Jones estate to sell the conspiracy theorist's Infowars website to satirical news outlet The Onion, saying a muddled auction process failed to generate enough value for creditors.
December 09, 2024
Lawyers for Alex Jones on Monday stepped up their criticism of satirical news outlet The Onion's bid to buy the conspiracy theorist's Infowars website, urging a Texas bankruptcy judge to block the deal and hand Infowars to a company operating a supplements website instead.
November 26, 2024
The parent company that owns X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, told a Texas bankruptcy judge that the Chapter 7 trustee in the case of right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones can't sell X accounts tied to Jones and his InfoWars business because they are the property of the social media company.
November 25, 2024
A Texas judge asked the Chapter 7 trustee in right-wing fabulist Alex Jones' bankruptcy to preserve the status quo until a sale hearing sometime in December that will determine whether the parent company of satirical news publisher The Onion was correctly chosen as the winning bidder in the auction for Jones' Infowars program.
November 25, 2024
Alex Jones and a backup bidder linked to his Chapter 7 are challenging the sale of his Infowars website to The Onion, alleging flaws in the auction process. A former FTX's tech deputy can avoid prison time for assisting the FTX fraud case by exposing programming flaws; attorneys who have represented Purdue Pharma can receive $21.2 million in fees for its work during summer. This is the week in bankruptcy.