New Cases

The financially struggling operator of Small Smiles Dental filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to begin the process of selling its operations to repay its debts. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

A group of hedge funds and investment firms calling itself the ad hoc committee of senior noteholders divulged their stakes Global Aviation Holdings Inc.’s debt. Bankruptcy law requires investors to publicly disclose their identities and their holdings if they’re working as a group in a Chapter 11 case.

Global Aviation Holdings Inc., which says it is the largest commercial provider of airlift transport services for the U.S. military, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Sunday. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

Newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises Inc. on Monday won court permission to exit bankruptcy under a plan that puts off the day of reckoning on hundreds of millions of dollars in debt. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal.

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, Wendy Williams does her part to keep Twinkies alive, and boy-band mogul Lou Pearlman’s trustee must be feeling larger than life. Also this week, Jefferson, County, Ala., scores a run against J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. on its dealings with Houston Astros owner Jim Crane.