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The Daily Docket: Judge Backs Lehman Trustee Over Banks

06/26/13

A federal bankruptcy judge Tuesday ruled that repurchase agreements don’t qualify for “customer status” in a failed brokerage business, a blow to a group of banks that had sought equal footing with customers in the liquidation of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s broker-dealer. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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Sly Stone Wants Ex-Manager’s Bankruptcies Tossed

06/25/13
Sony Music Entertainment
Sly Stone of Sly and The Family Stone

Funk music legend Sly Stone is asking a bankruptcy judge to dismiss the Chapter 11 cases invol

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The Daily Docket: TMT Gears Up to Defend Bankruptcy

06/25/13

Taiwanese shipping company TMT Group is gearing up for a fight over its right to remain in bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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Cable TV Distributor Files for Bankruptcy

06/24/13
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In this undated publicity image released by Bravo, host James Lipton, left, interviews Colin Firth during a taping of “Inside the Actors Stu
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The Daily Docket: TMT Enters Bankruptcy

06/24/13

Global shipping company TMT Group sought bankruptcy protection after failing to restructure its $1.46 billion debt load out of court. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal.

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The Broke and the Beautiful: BSB Edition

06/21/13

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, the Backstreet Boys are still dealing with the fallout of boy-band mogul Lou Pearlman. Also, film financier David Bergstein gets some new lawyers.

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The Daily Docket: Judge OKs Kodak Deal to Settle U.K. Pension Claim

06/21/13

A bankruptcy judge approved a key component of Eastman Kodak Co.’s restructuring Thursday, allowing the company to hand its personalized-imaging and document-imaging businesses to U.K. retirees. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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Judge Orders Receiver for Treasure Hunter’s Companies

06/20/13
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Gold bars and coins from the SS Central America, a mail steamship, sunk in a hurricane in 1857.

An Ohio judge has ordered a receiver to ta

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The Daily Docket: Kodak Reaches Financing Deal With Banks

06/20/13

Eastman Kodak Co. reached a deal with three major banks to be provided with $895 million in debt financing following its planned emergence from bankruptcy. Click here for the Daily Bankruptcy Review article.

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Contractor in Philly Building Collapse a No-Show in Bankruptcy

06/19/13

When Griffin Campbell filed for Chapter 13 protection in March, he was like a lot of other small-time Philadelphia entrepreneurs, with a string of properties, a load of unpaid taxes, a criminal record and a contractor’s license.

Then came the June 5 building collapse that killed six people and injured more than a dozen others, triggering a wave of lawsuits, a grand jury probe, a special hearing of Philadelphia’s City Council, the suicide of a city building inspector and criminal charges against a worker on the site, with the possibility of more charges on the way.

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