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Barnes & Noble Email to Borders Customers Rattles Privacy Watchdog

10/04/11
Reuters

A consumer-privacy watchdog is fuming over a message that Barnes & Noble Inc.

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Woman Who Won $9 Million Judgment Faces Battle Over Bankruptcy Fees

10/04/11

"Sixteen years ago, Michelle DiLieto's doctors told her she had cancer and removed her reproductive organs. Facing steep bills and ongoing medical complications, she filed for bankruptcy a year later. As she struggled in bankruptcy, DiLieto was hit with more...

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Landry’s to Buy Beso

10/04/11
AP Images for Microsoft

Eva Longoria and her Las Vegas steakhouse Beso can kiss bankruptcy good-bye.

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May a Bankruptcy Trustee Directly Contact a Debtor Represented by Counsel?

10/04/11

One reason that people considering bankruptcy hire lawyers is to prevent other lawyers involved in the matter from communicating directly with them, to avoid being taken advantage of.  The rules of legal ethics or professional responsibility governing lawyers unquestionably prevent creditors’ lawyers from making direct contact with represented parties.  But according to many legal ethics [...]

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The Daily Docket: Dodgers Seek MLB Probe

10/04/11

The Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday said the ballclub needs to probe Major League Baseball’s dealings with other MLB members as it prepares for a four-day trial that will determine its future. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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Mortgage Documentation Issues Close to (My) Home

10/03/11

The Arizona Supreme Court currently has under review a mortgage documentation case, Vasquez v. Saxon Mortgage, Inc. Just by chance, the Court was on its annual visit to the University of Arizona law college, where I teach, for the oral argument on Sept. 22. So of course I was in the audience at the argument, along with my students from our new Mortgage Clinic and a related course, called the Mortgage Crisis. We’ve been analyzing and debating the opposing arguments since.

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Have Bank of America's Managers Lost Their Minds?

10/03/11

Thinking you can do whatever you want to your customers because you're the biggest and most economically significant bank in the country is reckless and foolhardy.

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Right to convert from chapter 13 to chapter 7

10/03/11

In a recent case decided by the 9th circuit (In re Defrantz), the court ruled that the debtor has an absolute right to convert his chapter 13 case to a chapter 7 case. The creditor argued that the court should have considered the creditor’s motion to dismiss before converting the case and that the right [...]

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