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Federal bankruptcy monitors have named seven creditors to the influential panel that will speak for unsecured creditors in the $42 billion bankruptcy of Energy Future Holdings Corp. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

A judge on Thursday said some of Dish Network Corp. Chairman Charlie Ergen’s nearly $1 billion in claims in the wireless venture’s bankruptcy case will be subordinated below those of other creditors. However, in a separate ruling, she refused to approve LightSquared’s restructuring, saying it is unfair to Mr. Ergen. The Wall Street Journal has the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

LightSquared’s reorganization plan gives too much to value to the wireless venture’s top shareholder, Philip Falcone, and shouldn’t be approved, a lawyer for Dish Network Corp.  Chairman Charlie Ergen said Monday. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal.

Former DBSI Inc. President Douglas L. Swenson, convicted of multiple fraud charges for misleading investors, is seeking to be acquitted of the charges or, at the very least, a new trial.

Attorneys for Mr. Swenson and three other former officials say that acquittal or a new trial is warranted in light of such questions as “whether there was sufficient evidence produced at trial to support the crimes for which defendants were convicted,” court papers show.

Investors who bought several restaurants that fueled the dining boom in Washington, D.C.’s Capitol Hill neighborhood are accusing the D.C. restaurateur who sold the eateries of sabotaging the restaurants in a scheme to take them back. And they want their scooter back, too.