Bankruptcy Blogs

Receiving Wide Coverage ... Wow, what a morning. Scan is still trying to decide whether today's confluence of events out of Washington and Wall Street is poetically just, ironic or just plain spooky. A flood of headlines centered on finalization of the Volcker Rule, a congressional budget deal and the fifth anniversary of Bernard Madoff's arrest. That's a big agenda, but, for brave readers and those who had to get their kids to school early, let'sÂ...

The Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently released its decision in the ongoing debate over whether the Qimonda AG bankruptcy estate gets to ruin the world's semiconductor industry. For those unfamiliar with the complex, but important, Qimonda decisions, I'll refer you to California bankruptcy attorney Robert L.

Creditors of Death Row Records and Marion “Suge” Knight may soon see their first payment in nearly eight years, although one obstacle could come from none other than the rapper Dr. Dre.

Lawyers representing the rapper, whose given name is Andre Young, recently notified a bankruptcy judge that they’d file a $3 million claim on the rapper’s behalf in the bankruptcy cases of the record label and its founder, Mr. Knight. The claim seeks payment for records sold during the bankruptcy case, according to court papers.

My how time flies in protracted bankruptcy litigation. More than four years ago, as I reported back at the time, the Bankruptcy Court in the Chapter 15 cross-border bankruptcy case of Qimonda AG issued its first decision on the application of Section 365(n) in that case. After an initial appeal, a four-day trial on remand, and another appeal, last week the U.S.