News Topic: New Cases

Only one day after her daughter put Sonya Dakar’s Hollywood skincare clinic into bankruptcy, the esthetician to the stars filed for Chapter 11 protection herself. ... Read full article

Associated Press Gwyneth Paltrow, above, is one of many celebrities to have been treated by Sonya Dakar Skin Clinic. The parent company of ... Read full article

A judge on Monday said Eastman Kodak Co. could pay millions of dollars in bonuses to several hundred employees to keep them happy and at the company, overruling an objection by the Justice Department’s bankruptcy-watchdog unit. Read the Daily Bankruptcy ... Read full article

Fashion designer Betsey Johnson’s company filed for bankruptcy protection Thursday night in New York, following poor performance in its chain of retail stores. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, a former Black Eyed Peas manager has filed for bankruptcy, Gary Busey is giving out tax tips a little too late, and Lenny Dysktra has nailed a spot in the Los Angeles County Jail. ... Read full article

AFP/Getty Images A company whose security guards patrol the White House filed for bankruptcy with an emergency request to transfer a series of its government contracts to a competitor, a move to ensure that Pres ... Read full article

Film producer and distributor Media 8 Entertainment, which is known for putting out movies that have fallen just beyond Hollywood’s gaze, has taken an unscripted turn toward bankruptcy. Running low on cash, the company filed for Chapter 11 protection with ... Read full article

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, Newt Gingrich’s think tank elects for bankruptcy protection, and the Dodgers and AFA Foods have a surprising connection. Also this week, Young Buck’s intellectual property is rapping its way toward the auction ... Read full article

Associated Press Newt Gingrich A consulting group started by Newt Gingrich has found itself in more trouble than the former House Speaker’s presidential campaign, filing f ... Read full article

Creditors of Hostess Brands Inc. said in court papers the company may have “manipulated” its executives’ salaries higher in the months leading up to its Chapter 11 filing, in what the creditors called a possible effort by Hostess to “sidestep” Bankruptcy ... Read full article

Associated Press In this March 29 photo, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, left, and Nebraska Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy hold a t-shirt supporting the so-called “pink slime” meat product. ... Read full article

In a news release, Pinnacle Airlines Corp.  says that it and its subsidiaries have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. ... Read full article

According to The Wall Street Journal , investigators are probing whether a $175 million transfer from an MF Global Holdings Ltd. customer account three days before the firm’s bankruptcy may have run afoul of Securities and Exchange Commission and CME ... Read full article

A group led by basketball star Magic Johnson won the Los Angeles Dodgers at a bankruptcy auction Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reports . ... Read full article

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, Lenny Dykstra gets prison time and the owners of the New York Mets must pay up. Also, a judge wants the Los Angeles Dodgers and Bryan Stow to settle their dispute. ... Read full article

Getty Images A former Department of Commerce official is weighing in on the legal dispute Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. ... Read full article

The U.K. Supreme Court said Wednesday that billions of dollars in client cash belongs to customers of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s U.S. brokerage whether it was properly segregated or not, a win for customers of Lehman’s U.S. unit and the trustee ... Read full article

As a general rule, unions try avoid bankruptcy court—a place where airlines and other major corporations have used the court’s power to break pay promises they made to workers through collective-bargaining agreements. But federal bankruptcy court is where ... Read full article