News Topic: WSJcomBankruptcyBeat

Residential Capital LLC on Tuesday began building its case to exit Chapter 11 under a proposal supported by all but one of its major creditor groups, pointing out that those objectors are being treated better than all other creditors in the case, the ... Read full article

A prominent lawyers group is defending the right of bankruptcy judges to have the final say in their courtrooms, a right upon which a 2011 Supreme Court ruling has cast doubt. The American Bar Association , whose 400,000 members include many of the ... Read full article

After more than a year of cost-cutting and debt negotiations, Stockton, Calif., leaders can now focus their efforts on a March courtroom trial that could be the final hurdle to getting the 300,000-resident city out of bankruptcy. Read the Daily Bankruptcy ... Read full article

LightSquared on Friday sued Dish Network Corp. and Chairman Charlie Ergen, saying Mr. Ergen illegally purchased LightSquared debt before Dish bid on the company’s assets. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review story in The Wall Street Journal . ... Read full article

U.S. Trustee Program Tracy Hope Davis The Justice Department’s bankruptcy watchdog is shuffling its ranks for 2014. ... Read full article

TimeGate Studios Inc. A still from Section 8: Prejudice A bidding war has broken out over the rights to a pair of games created by shuttered videogame deve ... Read full article

U.S. Trustee Program Tracy Hope Davis The Justice Department’s bankruptcy watchdog is shuffling its ranks for 2014. ... Read full article

TimeGate Studios Inc. A still from Section 8: Prejudice A bidding war has broken out over the rights to a pair of games created by shuttered videogame deve ... Read full article

After more than a year of cost-cutting and debt negotiations, Stockton, Calif., leaders can now focus their efforts on a March courtroom trial that could be the final hurdle to getting the 300,000-resident city out of bankruptcy. Read the Daily Bankruptcy ... Read full article

A prominent lawyers group is defending the right of bankruptcy judges to have the final say in their courtrooms, a right upon which a 2011 Supreme Court ruling has cast doubt. The American Bar Association , whose 400,000 members include many of the ... Read full article

LightSquared on Friday sued Dish Network Corp. and Chairman Charlie Ergen, saying Mr. Ergen illegally purchased LightSquared debt before Dish bid on the company’s assets. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review story in The Wall Street Journal . ... Read full article

EPA A government effort to crack down on the fees corporate bankruptcy lawyers charge quietly took effect this month, though time will tell how attorneys and judges alike react to the new rules. ... Read full article

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, DMX’s bankruptcy case was dismissed and Lou Pearlman’s creditors are finally getting paid. Also, bankruptcy lawyers are searching for a buyer from Girls Gone Wild. ... Read full article

More details are emerging of a dispute between Dish Network ’s Charlie Ergen and a committee set up to evaluate a deal for LightSquared, The Wall Street Journal reports . ... Read full article

Spanish appliance maker Fagor Electrodomesticos filed for bankruptcy protection Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reports . ... Read full article

Reuters “Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis arrives at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles. Why bother to start a porn empire from scratch when you ... Read full article

Puerto Rico’s El Vocero newspaper could soon get a new owner that would preserve its voice on the 3.6 million-resident island. ... Read full article

European Pressphoto Agency A chartered North American Airlines Boeing 767 on the tarmac at the Mumbai airport, in Mumbai, India. ... Read full article