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Bitcoin trader Mt. Gox, which is in bankruptcy in Japan, filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

Pizza chain Sbarro filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection again. Click here for the DBR article.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Elizabeth L. Perris plans to retire after 30 years on the Oregon bench.

Judge Perris, 62, who is known for mediating disputes in Detroit’s bankruptcy and for other financially struggling cities, plans to retire in January. She’ll use the extra time to continue mediation work, travel and “not [have] to be on 6 a.m. conference calls,” according to a statement from her chambers.

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, Teresa and Joe Giudice plead guilty to fraud, and Armand Assante wants to save his house from auction. Also, Mel Gibson’s ex filed a debt-payment plan.

Lawyers for ComputerLand Corp. founder William Millard, now a Cayman Islands resident in his 80s, could interview the leader of the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands as part of Mr. Millard’s challenge of a tax bill of more than $100 million.

Join us Tuesday, March 11, at 10:30a.m. to hear The Wall Street Journal’s Joseph Checkler discuss the year ahead in bankruptcy with Steve Zelin of The Blackstone Group.