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Mayor: Stockton appears headed for bankruptcy - The Guardian

06/26/12

Mayor Ann Johnston told KCRA-TV (http://bit.ly/LpyGkr) on Tuesday that a formal bankruptcy filing now appears "very likely." In the past three years, officials addressed $90 million in deficits through a series of drastic cuts. They eliminated one-fourth ...

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UPDATE 1-California's Stockton seen at brink of bankruptcy filing - CNBC

06/26/12

STOCKTON, Calif., June 26 (Reuters) - Stockton, a northern California city of nearly 300,000, is poised on Tuesday to become the largest U.S. city to declare bankruptcy by approving a budget that requests protection from creditors. After three months of ...

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Cordillera Golf Club seems bankruptcy protection - The Business Journal

06/26/12

Cordillera Golf Club LLC, a Vail Valley golf and residential complex that operates as the Club at Cordillera, filed Tuesday for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and is seeking to reorganize its finances. “We had hoped to avoid filing Chapter ...

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Calif. City Appears Headed for Bankruptcy - US News and World Report

06/26/12

Mayor Ann Johnston told KCRA-TV that a formal bankruptcy filing now appears "very likely." In the past three years, officials in the city that was slammed by the collapse of the housing market dealt with $90 million in deficits through a series ...

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Stockton Edges Closer to Bankruptcy Filing - KQED

06/26/12

The Stockton City Council votes Tuesday night on taking the final step to filing for bankruptcy: a "pendency plan" that would halt payments on the city's debts, slash payments for retiree medical benefits, impose new pay and benefit cuts on city ...

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Can You Preserve Your Claims Against a Borrower After Filing a 1099-C Cancellation of Debt? - jdsupra.com

06/26/12

Bankruptcy courts around the country have expressed differing opinions about whether a 1099-C forgives or discharges the debtor from further liability on a debt. For example, courts in Connecticut have said that filing a 1099-C has the effect of ...

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Use bankruptcy to keep house and ditch ex? - Yahoo Finance

06/26/12

He has no interest in trying to save the property, but I do. I'm wondering if filing for bankruptcy would help my situation at all. My attorney has suggested it, but I'm not sure how that would work. I would really appreciate some advice.

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Stockton: Council expected to OK bankruptcy filing - San Francisco Gate

06/26/12

Stockton-- At 8 years old, Elizabeth Cerna doesn't know anything about Stockton going bankrupt, but she knows a lot about hope. She's been saving coins she finds on the sidewalk so her family can move out of the city homeless shelter where they wound up ...

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Birmingham: That's Not Our Problem - Wall Street Journal

06/25/12

Following the county's bankruptcy filing, hundreds of workers were laid off, forcing residents to sometimes wait hours for services. Birmingham, the county's biggest city, is in solid financial shape. Its officials hope borrowing costs won't rise sharply ...

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Bankruptcy filing, sale of assets initiated by Cinram - The Business Journal

06/25/12

Cinram International, which has a DVD manufacturing plant in Huntsville, announced Monday that it has reached agreements with newly formed subsidiaries of Najafi Companies for the sale of substantially all of Cinram's assets and businesses in ...

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