News Topic: New Cases

Revel resort and casino, which at 47 stories is the tallest building in Atlantic City, N.J., filed for Chapter 11 protection Thursday. Associated Press At ... Read full article

Children’s product designer and distributor Kid Brands Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Wednesday after several companies terminated licensing agreements and suppliers refused to ship goods. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

The trust in charge of overseeing Residential Capital LLC’s liquidation is trying to make the former mortgage servicer’s expensive bankruptcy case a little cheaper. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

Facing declining enrollment stemming it says from negative publicity about a 2008 foreclosure action, it says, a Brooklyn prep school filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday. Adelphi Academy of Brooklyn said that it filed for bankruptcy because it’s been ... Read full article

There will be no more standing ovations at San Jose Repertory Theatre. After 34 years of operation, the nonprofit community theater closed its doors last week and put itself into Chapter 7 bankruptcy. It blamed the move on a drop off in the donations it ... Read full article

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, a New Orleans celebrity chef put his business ventures in bankruptcy, and the rescuer of Twinkies may be eyeing an NFL creampuff. Also, Alec Baldwin got a key to the city. ... Read full article

A New Orleans chef whose beloved restaurants rode out Hurricane Katrina put a handful of his business ventures into bankruptcy Thursday. ... Read full article

A judge said James River Coal Co. can pay up to $2.7 million in bonuses to its top executives, rejecting a challenge to the payments by the federal government’s bankruptcy watchdog. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal . ... Read full article

Melanie Cohen A Long Island olive importer is asking a bankruptcy judge to decide how much it owes customers for allegedly selling processed olive oil as pure. ... Read full article

The Supreme Court on Monday clarified a prior ruling that effectively limited bankruptcy judges’ powers but left a bigger question unanswered. Law Blog has the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

Milwaukee’s YMCA filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the face of declining membership and contributions, pledging that its camps and other programs will continue during its restructuring. ... Read full article

“American Sniper” author Chris Kyle poses for this 2012 file photo. Mr. Kyle was fatally shot at a shooting range southwest of Fort Worth, Texas, on Feb. ... Read full article

A Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. subsidiary that owns the Canyon Ranch Hotel & Spa, Miami Beach filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Sunday to ease the sale of the luxury property to the owner and manager of a portfolio of hotels that includes ... Read full article

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, Soundelux entered bankruptcy protection, and four 38 Studios executives want to keep some documents out of public view. Also, Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis got arrested. ... Read full article

This publicity image released by HBO shows Peter Dinklage, left, and Sophie Turner in a scene from “Game of Thrones.” Todd-Soundelux, which recently filed for bankruptcy, has done sound for the TV show. ... Read full article

The TXU Monticello Steam Electric Station power plant near Mt. ... Read full article

Morrison & Foerster won the plum job of representing the official committee of unsecured creditors in the Energy Future Holdings Corp. Chapter 11 case, one of the biggest bankruptcies on record. ... Read full article

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, actor Mekhi Phifer is in bankruptcy, and legislators investigating the collapse of Curt Schilling’s videogame company are getting threatening letters. Also, “Real Housewife” Teresa Giudice got some good news. ... Read full article