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A Year After Bankruptcy, LA Dodgers Make Comeback - Yahoo Finance

07/10/12

Their divorce forced the Dodgers into bankruptcy. On opening day last year, Giants fan Brian Stow was beaten within an inch of his life, and families started avoiding Chavez Ravine. Most of all, the Dodgers weren't winning. Ticket sales ...

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Patriot Bankruptcy May Leave Peabody Liable for Expense - Bloomberg

07/10/12

Patriot Coal Corp.’s bankruptcy may leave competing U.S. mining companies ... Peabody, the largest U.S. coal producer ranked by sales, may be responsible for liabilities for the treatment of black lung disease that were assumed by Patriot ...

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ResCap Continues Settlements Over Mortgage Issues - 4-traders (press release)

07/10/12

"This is meaningful progress," Princi said. Later at Tuesday's hearing, the company struck deals with several adversaries over mortgage securities litigation against ResCap affiliates not in bankruptcy and some of its former executives. ResCap asked that ...

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Rapper's jewelry, art among items up for auction - msnbc.com

07/10/12

In December, a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge in Nashville converted the bankruptcy of David Darnell Brown - the rapper's legal name - from a Chapter 11 reorganization to a Chapter 7 liquidation. The trustee administering his estate said she planned to sell ...

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Patriot Coal Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - NPR News

07/10/12

Demand for coal is at its lowest point in more than two decades. That's in part because of milder winters and a shift to cheaper natural gas. Coal companies are also facing tough new rule proposals from the Environmental Protection Agency for ...

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InCharge Showcases Bankruptcy Courses at New Orleans Event - YAHOO!

07/10/12

there are still large numbers of filings and regions of the country that are showing increases," said Beth Mason, InCharge's Director of Outreach Programs for Bankruptcy Services. "The NACTT event attracts a national audience which makes this an ...

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Miami strip club files Chapter 11, has 'plenty of assets' - The Business Journal

07/10/12

A new bankruptcy filing for Miami strip club Bare Necessities includes $477,197 in assets and debt of $499,068. “There are plenty of assets and the bankruptcy was only filed to stop a tax deed sale scheduled tomorrow,” said Robert Meyer ...

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A Year After Filing for Bankruptcy, Dodgers Make a Comeback - CNBC

07/10/12

Their divorce forced the Dodgers into bankruptcy. On opening day last year, Giants fan Brian Stow was beaten within an inch of his life, and families started avoiding Chavez Ravine. Most of all, the Dodgers weren't winning. Ticket sales, which once ranked ...

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Bankruptcy Trustee Gets 18 Months For Embezzlement - Hartford Courant

07/10/12

Michael J. Daly, 56, of West Simsbury was expected to get a sentence of 6-12 months after pleading guilty to one count of embezzlement last September in which he admitted stealing $11,100 from a bankruptcy case involving Lehman Brothers.

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Elpida Bondholders Protest Sale To Micron - NASDAQ

07/10/12

The proposed sale is expected to form the core of a creditor-repayment ... which surfaced in papers filed in the Tokyo District Court and in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del. Elpida placed its U.S. assets under Chapter 15 protection ...

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