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Michelle Walker Appointed To Orange County’s Animal Services Advisory Board - PR Inside

06/27/12

DURHAM, N.C. – Jim White, lead bankruptcy and litigation attorney at The Law Office of James C. White P.C. ( jcwhitelaw.com), a law firm based in Durham that represents clients facing serious financial injury, has announced that Michelle Walker ...

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Stockton, Calif., to file for bankruptcy - msnbc.com

06/27/12

Major Market Indices Deeper cuts to police payrolls would be intolerable, making a financial restructuring in bankruptcy a necessary if painful choice, according to council members who voted for the budget. The $3.7 trillion U.S. municipal bond market has ...

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Mediation Fails, Pushing Stockton Toward Bankruptcy - New York Times

06/27/12

A year after nearby Vallejo, Calif., filed bankruptcy in 2008, state lawmakers passed AB 506, a bill requiring cities to hire a third-party mediator to negotiate with creditors before filing for bankruptcy. Stockton officials had hoped to avoid ...

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United States: Customer Filing For Bankruptcy In The Near Future - Mondaq

06/27/12

Q. My company sells products to a customer, which may file for bankruptcy in the near future. Despite this risk, I would like to continue to do business with the customer. What can I do to protect my company's interest and claims before this customer files ...

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Stockton bankruptcy will make history; residents reeling - Los Angeles Times

06/27/12

which recently emerged from a bankruptcy case filed in 2008. How Stockton found itself so mired in debt can be seen everywhere in the city's core. There is a sparkling marina, high-rise hotel and promenade financed by credit in the mid-2000s ...

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Florence Hospital employees left with nothing in bankruptcy court - trivalleycentral.com

06/27/12

“We knew about a month and a half ago that indeed we were in Bankruptcy but never knew that anything like this could happen, or to feel so helpless. I personally am owed just over $2,500.00 in wages from Florence Hospital, LLC also known as ...

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California city to become largest to file bankruptcy - CNN

06/27/12

In December, the county was $4.2 billion in debt. The largest previous municipal bankruptcy case was filed in 1994 by Orange County, California, which owed approximately $1.7 billion to creditors. CNN's Ed Payne contributed to this report.

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Sentencing in Maryland neighborhood watch beating case - Boston Herald

06/27/12

The case has drawn comparisons to the fatal shooting of Florida teen Trayvon Martin. Twenty-four-year-old Eliyahu Werdesheim faces sentencing Wednesday on second-degree assault and false imprisonment charges. He was acquitted of a deadly weapon charge.

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Sentencing in Maryland neighborhood watch beating case - Boston Herald

06/27/12

The case has drawn comparisons to the fatal shooting of Florida teen Trayvon Martin. Twenty-four-year-old Eliyahu Werdesheim faces sentencing Wednesday on second-degree assault and false imprisonment charges. He was acquitted of a deadly weapon charge.

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Dykstra makes plea in federal bankruptcy case - Abc Local Web

06/27/12

Lenny Dykstra, facing more than 90 years in prison for bankruptcy fraud, obstruction of justice and money laundering, has entered a plea agreement with federal prosecutors Lenny Dykstra, facing more than 90 years in prison for bankruptcy fraud, obstruction ...

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