News Topic: New Cases

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, Westlife singer Shane Filan is crooning the bankruptcy blues, and Stephen Baldwin lost a lawsuit against fellow actor Kevin Costner. Also, Curt Schilling was sued personally for $2.4 million over a loan from ... Read full article

Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling’s videogame company, 38 Studios LLC, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal . ... Read full article

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Getty Images A judge on Tuesday ruled largely for Barclays PLC in the bank’s ongoing dispute with the trustee unwinding Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s brokerage stemming from Barclays’ 2008 purchase of the brokerage, a decision th ... Read full article

The Department of Justice’s point man for bankruptcy cases on Monday challenged attorneys’ resistance to his bid to ensure the “extraordinarily large” fees he says they charge are reasonable and warranted Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review story here . ... Read full article

Getty Images The Justice Department has grown increasingly restless with attorney fees—often exceeding $1,000 an hour—paid by companies going through a bankruptcy reorganization. ... Read full article

People in glass houses shouldn’t live near firing ranges. Unfortunately, developers trying to build the Deer Island Resort along Salt Lake City’s mountain-encrusted perimeter learned that lesson the hard way. ... Read full article

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, a judge approved a settlement between the owners of the New York Mets and the trustee recovering money for Bernard Madoff’s fraud victims, and ex-Dodgers owner Frank McCourt is facing a grand-jury investigation. ... Read full article

RG Steel LLC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Thursday, days after admitting it was “confronted with an immediate, unexpected liquidity crisis.” Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

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Reuters Law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP has filed for bankruptcy protection, The Wall Street Journal report ... Read full article

EPA A radioactive waste-treatment center with as much as one million pounds of the stuff sitting around filed for bankruptcy liquidation Thursday. ... Read full article

Prospect Capital Corp. had planned a foreclosure sale for May 1 on the undrilled gas wells securing the more than $88.8 million in debt H&M Oil & Gas owed it. But when H&M filed for Chapter 11 on April 30, halting the sale, all the private ... Read full article

Hedge funds owed nearly $53 million have moved to push Allied Systems Holdings Inc. into an involuntary bankruptcy case, a remedy for what they claim are improper moves by owner Yucaipa Cos. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

Associated Press A judge Monday denied Hostess Brands Inc.’s bid to shed deals with its biggest union, the Teamsters, sending the bakery company back to the drawing board as it tries to claw its way out of its ... Read full article

Ally Financial Inc. placed its ResCap mortgage subsidiary into bankruptcy early Monday in an attempt to jettison what has long been a drag on its business. ResCap’s initial bankruptcy filings also list the company’s largest unsecured creditors, a group ... Read full article

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, Terrell Owens opens up to famed talk-show host Dr. Phil, and the Phoenix Coyotes might be ending its period of NHL ownership. Also this week, Gary Busey has a new job. ... Read full article

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, “Octomom” Nadya Suleman hatches a Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition, and Sonya Dakar has taken both her skincare company and herself to bankruptcy court. Also this week, the Los Angeles Dodgers sale is complete. ... Read full article