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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

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 expanded in 1998 basically to what it is now—online access to complete federal court case files.

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 a potentially valuable film library but with $8.6 million worth of debt owed to stars like Charlize Theron, Ben Affleck and Christina Ricci, according to papers filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Fort Myers, Fla.

The ice cream of the future may have dodged its apocalypse.

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