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Dish Network Corp. was interested in LightSquared as early as 2012, far earlier than Chairman Charlie Ergen previously said, lawyers for LightSquared said Monday. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal . ... Read full article

The human toll of bankruptcy is always on George Mesires’s mind. ... Read full article

Bankruptcy Beat readers, meet The Examiners. We’re launching a new recurring feature on the blog where we’ll pose a monthly restructuring question to a panel of restructuring experts. Like their namesake, our Examiners—a great group of top restructuring ... Read full article

Plus-size women’s clothing retailer Ashley Stewart Holdings Inc. filed for Chapter 11 on Monday, tracing its decline to a slow economy and Hurricane Sandy. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

Security tags hang from a Sequoia Voting Systems machine at a polling station in Chicago on Tuesday, Nov. ... Read full article

Dish Network Corp. was interested in LightSquared as early as 2012, far earlier than Chairman Charlie Ergen previously said, lawyers for LightSquared said Monday. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal . ... Read full article

The human toll of bankruptcy is always on George Mesires’s mind. ... Read full article

Bankruptcy Beat readers, meet The Examiners. We’re launching a new recurring feature on the blog where we’ll pose a monthly restructuring question to a panel of restructuring experts. Like their namesake, our Examiners—a great group of top restructuring ... Read full article

Plus-size women’s clothing retailer Ashley Stewart Holdings Inc. filed for Chapter 11 on Monday, tracing its decline to a slow economy and Hurricane Sandy. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

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 . ... Read full article

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 ... Read full article

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. ... Read full article

Former leaders at collapsed law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP were indicted on fraud charges including grand larceny, securities fraud and conspiracy and have pleaded not guilty, The Wall Street Journal reports . ... Read full 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 ... Read full article

On Thursday in Brooklyn, N.Y., Cengage Learning Inc. plans to ask for a judge’s final blessing for a reorganization plan that would cut $4 billion of the textbook publisher’s debt. The proposal gives a majority of the company’s equity to a group of senior ... Read full article

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 ... Read full article

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 ... Read full 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 ... Read full article