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The Daily Docket: Comcast, Crane Square Off Over CSN Houston

10/29/13

Lawyers for Comcast Corp. squared off with Houston Astros owner Jim Crane in a Texas bankruptcy court Monday over the fate of their troubled Houston regional sports network, which Comcast is trying to put in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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The Daily Docket: PwC Asks Judge to Chop FDIC’s Colonial Suit

10/28/13

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP is asking a federal judge to trim back the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s $1 billion lawsuit that alleges the accounting firm failed to catch the massive fraud that brought down Colonial Bank, in one of the largest bank collapses in U.S. history. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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The Daily Docket: Detroit to Make Case for Bankruptcy Eligibility

10/23/13

Detroit’s ready to make a case for its bankruptcy eligibility Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reports.

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The Daily Docket: LightSquared Losses Rise to More Than $934M

10/18/13

LightSquared lost $55.5 million in September, bringing the wireless satellite company’s losses since filing for bankruptcy to more than $934 million. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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The Daily Docket: Comcast Argues for CSN Houston Bankruptcy

10/17/13

Comcast Corp. urged a Texas bankruptcy judge to allow CSN Houston, the television network that broadcasts Houston Astros baseball games and Houston Rockets basketball games, to stay in bankruptcy, arguing the dismissal of its case would empower the Astros owner to yank its media rights agreement with the network. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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The Daily Docket: Ross Sees Bankruptcy as Venue for Bank Acquisitions

10/16/13
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Wilbur Ross

Wilbur Ross, whose Talmer Bancorp has agreed to invest $97 million to take over Capitol Bancorp’s stakes in its fo

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The Daily Docket: Alitalia Shareholders Agree to Raise Money

10/15/13

Shareholders for Italian airline Alitalia approved a proposal to raise up to EUR300 million ($406.9 million) to try to save it from bankruptcy, The Wall Street Journal reports.

According to WSJ, some of Suntech’s U.S. bondholders are trying to force the Chinese solar-panel maker into bankruptcy in the U.S.

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The Daily Docket: Energy Conversion Trustee Sues Companies for $950M

10/08/13

A bankruptcy trustee for failed solar panel manufacturer Energy Conversion Devices is suing three Chinese companies for $950 million over allegations of price fixing and the dumping of cheap solar panels that drove the U.S. company out of business. Read the DBR Small Cap article via The Wall Street Journal.

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The Daily Docket: Stockton Strikes Deal With Bond Insurer

10/07/13
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Struggling Stockton, Calif., struck a deal with the bond insurer behind the city’s roughly $125 million pension bond debt—its largest borrowed debt—that will enable the city to stretc

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U.S. Judge Orders Irish Developer to Open Books

10/04/13

A Connecticut bankruptcy judge has ordered Sean Dunne, once one of Ireland’s biggest property developers, to open his books to a U.S. bankruptcy trustee saying he can’t hide behind Irish family law to avoid answering questions about his finances.

Judge Alan H.W. Shiff of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Bridgeport, Conn., in a ruling Thursday, said Mr. Dunne must turn over his financial records to Richard Coan, the bankruptcy trustee overseeing the developer’s Chapter 7 case, and to testify under oath to his Irish creditors.

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