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This is a list of recent business-related bankruptcies filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Minneapolis and St. Paul. The number after the filing date is the case number. A Chapter 7 petition is for liquidation of the business; Chapter 11 (or ...

For those who think that bankruptcy is the easy way out, think again. Bankruptcy should always be the absolutely last resort. The “advantage” of filing for bankruptcy, of course, is that it gets creditors permanently off your back, with no continuing ...

Tepid consumer spending has an upside: Bankruptcy filings in the U.S. are down 14% in the first half of the year, helped along by record-low interest rates and a new culture of belt-tightening. From Jan. 1 to June 30, there were 632,130 new ...

A bankruptcy judge previously approved the company's proposal to reorganize. "The Dynegy filing was a crucial step in our restructuring and brings us closer to completing the restructuring," said Katy Sullivan, spokeswoman forDynegy. "The companies ...

With various parties filing objections to the Dewey estate's plans on all three fronts, Monday's hearing before U.S. bankruptcy judge Martin Glenn, which is scheduled to start at 3 p.m., could be animated and prolonged. Tensions already appear ...