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More details are emerging of a dispute between Dish Network’s Charlie Ergen and a committee set up to evaluate a deal for LightSquared, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Union leaders are criticizing Detroit’s attempt to hide the amount of money that

Alitalia’s shareholders meet Monday to vote on raising €500 million ($677 million) in a plan that could bring the Italian government back as an owner of the airline, five years after privatization of the carrier cost taxpayers billions of euros, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Patriot Coal reached a settlement with Peabody Energy Corp. that provides funding for a union retiree benefits fund and will allow the coal mining company to exit bankruptcy by the end of the year. Read the story in the Daily Bankruptcy Review.

By Joseph Checkler and Stephanie Gleason

U.S. bankruptcy courts remain open for business, but the government shutdown leaves them far from full strength.

Only one third of the employees from the U.S. Trustee Program, the Justice Department unit that monitors bankruptcy cases throughout the country, are essential workers who are required to work through the shutdown. The other 780 employees have been furloughed.