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Business bankruptcies - Minneapolis Star Tribune

06/10/12

This is a list of recent business-related bankruptcies filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Minneapolis and St. Paul. The number after the filing date is the case number. A Chapter 7 petition is for liquidation of the business; Chapter 11 (or ...

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Seniors struggle under growing debt load - Cleveland Plain Dealer

06/10/12

Unable to find work and keep up with medical bills, some of which he paid for with credit cards, Zimmering filed for bankruptcy last year, listing $42,020.87 in liabilities, mostly medical bills. A judge discharged his debts last year.

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10 lawsuits filed alleging lawyer fraud - Tuscaloosa News

06/10/12

According to the complaint, he told her that the restaurant was in bankruptcy and that its insurance would cover her claim. He said that he had filed a lawsuit and was preparing for a trial. The client learned in May that he had never filed a suit.

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R.I. weighs its losses from Schilling deal - Cape Cod Times

06/10/12

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The state of Rhode Island is working to determine how much it stands to lose in a $75 million loan guarantee deal for former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's video gaming company after its bankruptcy filing this week.

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Ruling may allow Prium to void bankruptcies - Olympian

06/10/12

In March, they asked the bankruptcy judge to suspend the case while everyone awaited the state high court’s decision, an unusual request that Judge Paul Snyder denied. As the top court mulled it over, the creditors committee kept trying to unc ...

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Admiral Kuznetsov Defends George Soros - Town Hall

06/10/12

Actually the bailout did neither. Chrysler and GM still filed for bankruptcy and workers got laid off. Of course the only workers who got rehired were workers who were part of the UAW. All the non-UAW people were left out in the cold.

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Canadian tech town feels BlackBerry's decline - AP - msnbc.com

06/10/12

Tad Homer-Dixon, chairman of the Center for International Governance and Innovation, a Waterloo-based think tank, likens Waterloo to Rochester, New York, where the blow of Kodak's bankruptcy filing is cushioned by the network of startups the company helped to spawn.

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Bankruptcy Filing Expert Attorney Jeffrey B. Peltz Launches New Website - Mynews India

06/09/12

Brooklyn, New York – According to a Reuter’s report, bankruptcy filing reached the second highest daily level in May 2010 since 2005 with 133,459 petitions filed in May 2010 alone. Bankruptcy may be an excellent option for a businesses or individual in ...

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Harrisburg bankruptcy debate rises as expiration date for state law nears - PennLive.com

06/09/12

[Bankruptcy] is an option that should always be on the table ... including an earned income tax hike on city residents and the contract allowing for the sale of the city’s Wild West artifacts, takes away from the plan’s chance at success ...

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Manson cult killings case reopened as new evidence found in bankruptcy sale - The Australian

06/09/12

LOS ANGELES police have reopened investigations into the notorious Manson cult killings that terrified the city in the late 1960s. The move follows the discovery of tapes of conversations between gang members that may offer clues to a wave of mysterious ...

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