bankruptcy law

International treaties take years to complete as it is, so imagine the complexities at play in a hypothetical international insolvency treaty.

But at least people are starting to talk about it.

Lawyers who are settling old legal disputes involving Girls Gone Wild have r

Energy Future Holdings Corp. will continue making its case next Wednesday in Wilmington, Del., to pay as much as $18 million in bonuses to upper management. A hearing on the matter began on Oct. 8 and spilled into Oct. 9, as the company faces a fight from U.S. Trustee Roberta A. DeAngelis.

Among Ms. DeAngelis’s problems with the package is a pre-existing bonus arrangement that could nearly double the amount Energy Future is seeking.

GT Advanced Technologies , the sapphire supplier that filed for bankruptcy protection Monday, wants to keep what went wrong between it and Apple Inc. behind closed doors.

Why?

After more than a year in bankruptcy court, the city asked a federal judge Tuesday for the final blessing of its plan to slash $7 billion in debt and get on the road to solvency, The Wall Street Journal reports.