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The Justice Department’s bankruptcy watchdog is shuffling its ranks for 2014.

After more than a year of cost-cutting and debt negotiations, Stockton, Calif., leaders can now focus their efforts on a March courtroom trial that could be the final hurdle to getting the 300,000-resident city out of bankruptcy. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review story via The Wall Street Journal.

A prominent lawyers group is defending the right of bankruptcy judges to have the final say in their courtrooms, a right upon which a 2011 Supreme Court ruling has cast doubt.

The American Bar Association, whose 400,000 members include many of the country’s lawyers and judges, has filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the Supreme Court to narrowly interpret its prior ruling by confirming bankruptcy courts’ broad ability to enter final orders and judgments.

LightSquared on Friday sued Dish Network Corp. and Chairman Charlie Ergen, saying Mr. Ergen illegally purchased LightSquared debt before Dish bid on the company’s assets. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review story in The Wall Street Journal.

Puerto Rico’s El Vocero newspaper could soon get a new owner that would preserve its voice on the 3.6 million-resident island.