March 19, 2026
A Delaware bankruptcy judge quashed a request to make a consultant hired by Christmas Tree Shops LLC pay liabilities for short-notice layoffs, eye treatment developer Clearside Biomedical asked the same judge to approve a claim settlement and the U.S. Trustee balked at Genesis Healthcare's proposed executive bonuses.
January 01, 2024
A wide variety of cases are likely to keep retail industry attorneys busy in 2024, including high-profile antitrust actions against Amazon and Google, a growing number of greenwashing disputes, and skirmishes between major retailers and their increasingly unionized workforces.
August 31, 2023
Christmas Tree Shops employees who worked during the discount retailer's last days are finally starting to get the wages they are owed, but payroll taxes have gone unpaid because of a "glitch," lawyers for the liquidating trustee said during a Delaware bankruptcy court hearing on Thursday.
August 16, 2023
A Delaware bankruptcy judge has converted discount retailer Christmas Tree Shops' bankruptcy to a Chapter 7 liquidation after excoriating the firms involved in the case for not ensuring employees and taxes were being paid.
July 11, 2023
The official committee of unsecured creditors of bankrupt retailer Christmas Tree Shops LLC has asked a Delaware judge to convert the company's insolvency case to a Chapter 7 liquidation, saying the estate is diminishing in value without budgeting for administrative expenses.
July 07, 2023
The unsecured creditors of Christmas Tree Shops told a Delaware bankruptcy judge Friday they will be asking him to convert the retail chain's Chapter 11 bankruptcy to a Chapter 7 liquidation as the company begins shuttering its stores.
June 29, 2023
A Delaware bankruptcy court Thursday approved an emergency supplemental debtor-in-possession financing agreement for Christmas Tree Shops after missing case milestones sent it into default on its existing DIP, overruling objections from the retailer's landlords who said they were getting squeezed.
May 31, 2023
Christmas Tree Shops got final approval Wednesday from a Delaware bankruptcy judge to take out $45 million in Chapter 11 financing after resolving objections from landlords concerned the retail chain had not budgeted enough cash to pay its rent.
May 09, 2023
Christmas Tree Shops got interim permission from a Delaware bankruptcy judge Tuesday to tap into $45 million in Chapter 11 financing under conditions that will require the retail chain to aim to exit bankruptcy by the end of August.