coal

[wsj-responsive-image P="//art.wsj.net/api/photos/37799296/smartcrop?height=499&width=749" J="//art.wsj.net/api/photos/37799296/smartcrop?height=639&width=959" M="//art.wsj.net/api/photos/37799296/smartcrop?height=853&width=1280" caption="A dragline excavator mines coal in this aerial photograph taken above the Peabody Energy Somerville Central strip mine in Oakland City, Ind. The company is paying Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe at least $435,000 to lead its opposition to the Obama administration’s signature climate-change initiative." credit="Bloomberg News" placement="Inline"

Ahead of a long weekend, companies are looking for approval from bankruptcy judges next week on a variety of motions, including one signoff that would largely conclude an old dispute.

On Monday, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and the remnants of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. will ask for approval of a $1.42 billion settlement that resolves claims that J.P. Morgan illegally siphoned billions of dollars from Lehman before its collapse.