News Topic: WSJcomBankruptcyBeat

A man protests outside at Wayne State University before an event to discuss Detroit a year after the city’s exit from bankruptcy takes place Wednesday. ... Read full article

LigtSquared LLC, formerly LightSquared Inc. and fresh out of bankruptcy protection, dismissed its lawsuit against the U.S. government. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal . ... Read full article

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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Duluth, Minn., filed for bankruptcy Monday after being hit with an $8.4 million verdict in a clergy sex abuse case, Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review story via The Wall Street Journal .  Last month, a jury awarded $8.4 million ... Read full article

Children’s tablet-maker Fuhu Inc. filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday with a tentative deal to be acquired by Mattel Inc. for $9.5 million. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review story via The Wall Street Journal . ... Read full article

F-Squared Investments Inc., an investment firm that failed earlier this year following a dispute with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, is hoping to move closer to wrapping up its bankruptcy case. On Monday, F-Squared will ask Judge Laurie ... Read full article

Energy Future Holdings Corp. won confirmation Thursday of its $42 billion chapter 11 plan after lining up support for the proposal from its numerous creditors,  Daily Bankruptcy Review reported via the Wall Street Journal . A bankruptcy judge approved the ... Read full article

Tamara Mellon attends the Fashion Group International’s Night of Stars in New York (Credit Image: Robin Platzer/Twin Images/UPPA via ZUMA Press) Robin Platzer/Twin Images ... Read full article

Michael I. Goldberg  is now co-chair at Akerman’s new fraud and recovery practice. Mr. Goldberg, the liquidating trustee in the Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler bankruptcy case, focuses on Ponzi schemes and receiverships. He has also represented the chapter 11 ... Read full article

Houston-based contract rig operator  Vantage Drilling  Co. filed for bankruptcy protection late Wednesday night after reaching a deal on a debt-for-equity swap with its lenders and bondholders,  The Wall Street Journal reported . Like others in the ... Read full article

Customers stand in line as they wait for the doors to open at Best Buy in McAllen, Texas. ... Read full article

Several court websites that are portals to bankruptcy court filings were down on Tuesday morning—the first day that  bankruptcy lawyers are supposed to file documents using newer forms . Many court websites were offline for several hours starting on ... Read full article

The Chemical Brothers perform on day 1 of the Electric Zoo EDM festival at Randall Robert Altman/Invision/Associated Press Concert promoter SFX Enterta ... Read full article

NextEra Energy  Inc. said Friday it has agreed to sell two Texas natural gas power plants to Energy Future Holdings Corp.’s Luminant unit for $1.59 billion. Read the story in The Wall Street Journal . ... Read full article

Connie Jodice cleans a section where pre-made foods will go, next to the wet rack, containing fresh produce, inside a Haggen grocery store, formerly an Albertsons, located in Palmdale, on March 23, 2015. ... Read full article

New York financier Lynn Tilton arrives for an appeal hearing at the U.S. ... Read full article

The paperwork that people and businesses have used to file for bankruptcy protection since the 1980s is being replaced on Dec. 1 with forms that have clearer, easier-to-understand instructions and that’s…bad? ... Read full article

Lynn Tilton speaks with her attorneys after a hearing at the U.S. ... Read full article