News Topic: New Cases

Getty Images Fans of chicken wings and cleavage, remain calm—your local Hooters is safe. ... Read full article

Chicago’s largest balloon seller has filed for bankruptcy protection, but owner Lee Kaufman insists the party isn’t over. At 100 years old, helium-filled balloon distributor M.K. Brody & Co. still turns a profit but blamed its financial unease on ... Read full article

News Corp.’s Fox Sports is protesting the Los Angeles Dodgers’ request to hire Blackstone Group to market the team’s media rights, setting up a potential battle with the broadcaster that, until recently, had been one of embattled owner Frank McCourt’s ... Read full article

For one Florida company, it’s out with the citrus and in with the stone. Old Corkscrew Plantation LLC, which has thousands of acres of orange groves on its Florida property, doesn’t seem to have any immediate ideas for how to restructure the hefty debt ... Read full article

Bankruptcy lawyers have taken executives at Chicken Out Rotisserie by the hand to lead them over to whatever side of the road will make the chain’s 10 remaining restaurants profitable again. ... Read full article

Hello, and welcome to The Broke and the Beautiful. With this new weekly fixture, Bankruptcy Beats aims to bring you a roundup of the biggest celebrity-related bankruptcy news. This week, creditors of Eva Longoria’s Beso LLC want a trustee for the ... Read full article

School-bus operator USA United Fleet Inc.—one of the biggest providers of transportation for New York City’s public-school children—turned to bankruptcy court for a little breathing room after hitting a series of financial potholes. ... Read full article

Getty Images A Las Vegas church that’s tried to redirect some of Sin City’s glitzy brilliance to illuminate one of its darker corners—its robust sex trade—has ... Read full article

The man who pitches himself as Las Vegas’s “original celebrity chef” filed for bankruptcy protection along with his two French restaurants. ... Read full article

Associated Press Jeff Pash, executive vice president and general counsel for the NFL, talks with the media in Washington on March 11. ... Read full article

A home-décor distributor that made sold bottled burnable candle fuel has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, facing dozens of lawsuits by burn victims. Georgia-based  Napa Home & Garden Inc. sold a clear, slow-burning gel used to fill up ... Read full article

Creditors have pulled the plug on Norway electric-car maker Think Global AS. Think , which was once property of Ford Motor Co., filed for a form of bankruptcy in its home country and will have a court-appointed trustee take over management of the company, ... Read full article

Associated Press Patricia Kluge hugs her son John Kluge, Jr. at the funeral for his father, philanthropist John W. ... Read full article