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Exide Technologies Inc. and its creditors are vying for the right to launch a probe into suspected metal price-fixing, with an eye toward collecting damages if it turns out the battery-maker was victimized.

New Jersey Bankruptcy Judge Morris “Mickey” Stern, died Wednesday after battling cancer for more than a year. He was 72.

Judge Stern—called “Mickey” by colleagues—became a judge in 2001 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Newark, N.J., where he presided over the bankruptcy cases for Bayonne Medical Center and for St. Mary’s Hospital in Passaic. He also handled the bankruptcy of Real Housewives star Teresa Giudice in 2010.

Join us Tuesday, February 11, at 10:45 a.m. to hear The Wall Street Journal’s Stephanie Gleason moderate a “year ahead in bankruptcy” discussion with bankruptcy and restructuring experts Steve Zelin of The Blackstone Group and Lisa Donahue of AlixPartners LLP.

Join us Tuesday, February 11, at 10:45 a.m. to hear The Wall Street Journal’s Stephanie Gleason moderate a “year ahead in bankruptcy” discussion with bankruptcy and restructuring experts Steve Zelin of The Blackstone Group and Lisa Donahue of AlixPartners LLP.

A bankruptcy judge Tuesday dismissed a play by Major League Baseball’s Houston Astros to prevent the troubled Comcast SportsNet Houston television network from restructuring under Chapter 11 protection, The Daily Bankruptcy Review reports.