December 12, 2012
The U.S. trustee on Tuesday objected to an $18 million fee request by professional firms working on Patriot Coal Corp.'s bankruptcy, arguing that their rates were excessive, especially since the company hasn't filed a reorganization plan and is still incurring significant financial losses.
November 27, 2012
A New York bankruptcy judge on Tuesday transferred Patriot Coal Corp.'s Chapter 11 proceedings to Missouri, where the debtor's headquarters are located, after union workers urged the judge to move the case out of Manhattan.
November 15, 2012
A New York bankruptcy judge granted Patriot Coal Corp. a six-month extension of its exclusive right to file a Chapter 11 plan Thursday, which the debtor had argued was necessary to let it avoid having to formulate a reorganization plan prematurely.
October 19, 2012
Patriot Coal Corp. asked a New York bankruptcy judge Thursday for six more months to file a Chapter 11 plan, saying it would let it avoid having to formulate a reorganization plan prematurely and develop a plan that best addresses constituents' needs.
October 16, 2012
A New York bankruptcy judge granted Patriot Coal Corp. relief from the automatic bankruptcy stay Friday to enable it to request critical compliance deadline extensions in environmental proceedings filed against the debtor in West Virginia federal court.
October 05, 2012
Patriot Coal Corp. creditor Caterpillar Inc. filed an objection Friday to several requests to move the debtor's Chapter 11 case out of New York, saying doing so would not be in the interests of justice and would unfairly favor Patriot's union.
September 21, 2012
Patriot Coal Corp. asked a New York bankruptcy court Thursday for permission to let a fellow Arch Coal Inc. spinoff out of an agreement it had reached with their parent company in 2005, saying this would save it tens of millions of dollars.
September 17, 2012
The U.S. trustee objected Friday to Patriot Coal Corp. shareholders' request for an official committee, saying they failed to show their interests are not being adequately represented or that it's even likely they'll get a meaningful recovery.
September 11, 2012
A New York bankruptcy judge on Tuesday questioned several arguments made by the U.S. Trustee's office and the United Mine Workers of America in their efforts to switch the venue of Patriot Coal Corp.'s Chapter 11 case to West Virginia or another locale where the company has the bulk of its operations.
September 04, 2012
The U.S. trustee responded Friday to Patriot Coal Corp.'s objection to her bid to move the bankruptcy, saying the debtor failed to refute her central argument, that the creation of two entities on the eve of bankruptcy was an attempt to "manufacture venue."