News Topic: WSJcomBankruptcyBeat

Should the bankruptcy code be amended to make it easier for borrowers to seek forgiveness of student loan debt through a bankruptcy filing? ... Read full article

Should the bankruptcy code be amended to make it easier for borrowers to seek forgiveness of student loan debt through a bankruptcy filing? ... Read full article

Should the bankruptcy code be amended to make it easier for borrowers to seek forgiveness of student loan debt through a bankruptcy filing? ... Read full article

Patriot Coal Corp. is in “active negotiations” with an unnamed strategic buyer, hoping for a deal to aid it out of bankruptcy. The Wall Street Journal has the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

The Fresh Produce retail chain, which sells colorful, roomy women’s clothing that one can classify as “tourist wear,” has found a buyer who promised to keep more than half of its 27 stores alive. In court papers, Fresh Produce officials said that an ... Read full article

Should the bankruptcy code be amended to make it easier for borrowers to seek forgiveness of student loan debt through a bankruptcy filing? ... Read full article

Should the bankruptcy code be amended to make it easier for borrowers to seek forgiveness of student loan debt through a bankruptcy filing? ... Read full article

Should the bankruptcy code be amended to make it easier for borrowers to seek forgiveness of student loan debt through a bankruptcy filing? ... Read full article

Richard Levin, who founded Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP’s restructuring practice eight years ago, is changing firms as he approaches the firm’s retirement age. Mr. Levin, 64, plans to join Chicago’s Jenner & Block next week to help build the firm’s ... Read full article

Colorado oil company American Eagle Energy Corp. has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after missing an interest payment to bondholders. The Wall Street Journal has the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, two former Phillies traded barbs, a Super Bowl ticket seller didn’t have a super week, and the company that distributed “Ace Ventura” is on its way out of bankruptcy. ... Read full article

Want to place a bet on two Chicago-area horse-racing tracks? Balmoral Park and Maywood Park are going up for sale as part of a deal to end a legal fight with Illinois riverboat casino operators. The casino operators won an $82 million judgment against the ... Read full article

Tony Gutierrez/Associated Press The RadioShack trademark and the rest of the intellectual property trove of the electronics retailing pioneer is going up for auction Monday as efforts continue to gather cash f ... Read full article

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Dado Galdieri/Bloomberg News Add another name to the ever-expanding list of women’s retailers to shut down in the past year: Simply Fashion. ... Read full article

In a report released last year , the New York Federal Reserve estimated that student loan debt had climbed to $966 billion in 2012, with more than two-thirds of that debt owed by borrowers younger than 40 years old. The report estimated that 6.7 million ... Read full article

Federal bankruptcy watchdogs have asked that an independent examiner be appointed to oversee spending in the bankruptcy of GT Advanced Technologies Inc. The Wall Street Journal has the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

Bankruptcy trustees are suing universities—and sometimes, college students themselves—to take back tuition that had been paid years before as part of an aggressive and growing legal tactic. ... Read full article