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The feds will decide within six months whether those involved with New Stream Capital LLC will face criminal charges, but until then, founder David Bryson and other ex-employees will be taking the Fifth Amendment and refusing to answer questions about the “hedge fund” operation that dabbled in the life-settlement business, as well as T-shirts, jewelry operations and real estate, court papers say.

Bankruptcy proceedings are speeding right along for failed law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP (notwithstanding an 

Dewey & LeBoeuf is putting its art collection on the auction block.

It’s been more than a month since San Diego medical-marijuana dispensary Mother Earth Alternative Healing Cooperative

It’s been well over a year since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision in Stern vs. Marshall that called into question the authority of bankruptcy judges to decide certain issues. Although some of the storm has calmed since then, according to a group of bankruptcy judges speaking on a panel at an American Bankruptcy Institute conference in Washington Friday, it’s clear that the wound is still fresh.

“I was offended by the opinion,” said Judge Mary Walrath of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del., referring to the 5-4 Supreme Court decision.