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Investors that wound up at the bottom of the payment pileup in Tribune Co.’s bankruptcy raced to appeal a Monday order confirming the media company’s Chapter 11 plan. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

A Chicago breast-cancer charity that helped patients cope with the disease long before pink ribbons and celebrity advocates entered the picture has shut down and filed for bankruptcy liquidation. ... Read full article

A bankruptcy judge Monday officially signed off on Tribune Co .’s Chapter 11 plan, endorsing final documents setting out the debt-for-equity swap that will make the media company property of hedge funds and banks. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article ... Read full article

Associated Press/Canadian Press It’s fish-in-a-barrel shooting season over at Nortel Networks Corp., with claims traders peppering ex-employees with offers to pay 70 cents, 80 cents or more for their bankruptc ... Read full article

Reuters J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. said senior management of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. ... Read full article

EPA Time out! The deadline has been pushed back for a proposed “clawback” settlement that was offered to more than 700 former partners of the bankrupt law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP. ... Read full article

Can you believe it’s been a year since The Broke and the Beautiful first graced the blogosphere? On this week’s edition, former baseball star turned financial guru Lenny Dykstra pleads guilty to bankruptcy fraud. Also, Young Buck (who coincidentally ... Read full article

AFP/Getty Images A US Airways tail rest on the tarmac near an American Airlines plane at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia on April 23, 2012. A ... Read full article

Latham & Watkins The app “The Book of Jargon: Global Restructuring” has more than 1,000 complicated terms translated into plain English. Do you drop phrase ... Read full article

Getty Images U.S. Airways Chief Executive Doug Parker speaks about a merger with AMR Corp. ... Read full article

It’s no secret that the corporate bankruptcy process is expensive. But government leaders of the Northern Mariana Islands found out that even the expense of getting thrown out of bankruptcy court has an eye-widening price tag. ... Read full article

Reuters So it’s been nearly a week since the team winding down the defunct law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP  ... Read full article

Nicholas Roberts/AFP/Getty Images Deutsche Bank AG has agreed to settle a long-running lawsuit with Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. ... Read full article

An appellate panel has agreed to hear pleas from Wall Street banks who want power restored to John Young, the sewer expert who took over Jefferson County, Ala.’s, system when its leaders got tangled in a corruption scandal but who was ousted earlier this ... Read full article

Associated Press In this March 18, 2010 file photo, gallery owner Lawrence Salander, center, leaves New York Supreme Court with his son Jonah, right, and his attorney Charles ... Read full article

Tribune Co. won court approval of its Chapter 11 plan after a long and contentious bankruptcy proceeding, clearing the way to action before the Federal Communications Commission that will be anything but easy for the publishing and broadcasting operation. ... Read full article

Associated Press Louis Freeh Louis Freeh’s investigations pack a punch, but at $850 an hour the ex-FBI director doesn’t come cheap. ... Read full article

Depending upon your political views, Ayn Rand’s revolutionary character John Galt is either friend or foe. But we can offer an objective answer: he’s a debtor. A company named for the protagonist of Rand’s 1957 novel “Atlas Shrugged” filed for Chapter 7 ... Read full article