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Getty Images When Maclaren USA entered bankruptc ... Read full article

Associated Press Select Onion Co.’s recent bankruptcy left three million pounds of onions in Oregon to sweat over their fate. ... Read full article

American Airlines parent AMR Corp.’s chief restructuring officer on Tuesday said the company won’t be able to successfully restructure without drastically cutting its labor costs. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

Getty Images for Coachella 50 Cent performs onstage during the third day of the 2012 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. Rapper 50 Cent is laying clai ... Read full article

The U.S. Supreme Court began the process of weighing in on one of the hottest issues in corporate bankruptcy Monday, casting harsh eyes on a hotel owner’s attempt to block its secured lender from using debt as currency in a bankruptcy auction. Read the ... Read full article

Alabama’s top court ruled that the state’s struggling cities and counties have the power to file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection, a decision that largely frees the state’s most populous metropolitan area to move ahead with its five-month-old ... Read full article

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, a former Black Eyed Peas manager has filed for bankruptcy, Gary Busey is giving out tax tips a little too late, and Lenny Dysktra has nailed a spot in the Los Angeles County Jail. ... Read full article

Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The judge charged with determining whether Hostess Brands Inc. ... Read full article

Getty Images In the era of the iPhone, businesses that are struggling to survive turn to a bankruptcy process that was invented during the time of typewriters. ... Read full article

AFP/Getty Images A company whose security guards patrol the White House filed for bankruptcy with an emergency request to transfer a series of its government contracts to a competitor, a move to ensure that Pres ... Read full article

Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Hostess Brands Inc.’s chief executive says the contentious battle over union pension plans has become a “gate-keeping issue” in the case that ... Read full article

For the Bankruptcy Beat team, PACER (which stands for Public Access to Court Electronic Records) is basically a way of life. The federally mandated system, managed by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, began in 1988 as a pilot program. It was ... Read full article

A judge Tuesday indicated he would extend Hostess Brand Inc.’s control over its bankruptcy restructuring, rather than opening the case up to rival plans from creditors eager to reach out to investors who’d fund their own exit plan for the bakery company. ... Read full article

Film producer and distributor Media 8 Entertainment, which is known for putting out movies that have fallen just beyond Hollywood’s gaze, has taken an unscripted turn toward bankruptcy. Running low on cash, the company filed for Chapter 11 protection with ... Read full article

Hostess Brands Inc. is set to face off against the Teamsters union Tuesday in a labor battle that could spell the end for the maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread. Read The Daily Bankruptcy Review story  here . ... Read full article

Peppermint with Oreo The ice cream of the future may have dodged its apocalypse. ... Read full article

A bankruptcy judge Friday confirmed the Chapter 11 exit plan that inaugurates a new era for the Los Angeles Dodgers, a baseball team that fell on hard times under the ownership of real estate developer Frank McCourt. Read The Daily Bankruptcy Review story ... Read full article

Associated Press Warren Sapp This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, former football star Warren Sapp’s debts catch up with him, broke sports agent Leigh Steinberg aims fo ... Read full article