The Daily Docket: Aereo Files for Bankruptcy

Internet-broadcast streaming company Aereo Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection five months after the Supreme Court delivered the technology a company a fatal blow in its fight with traditional television broadcasters, Daily Bankruptcy Review reports via The Wall Street Journal.

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A new ruling will allow New Yorkers to file for bankruptcy without risking losing their rent-controlled apartments, WSJ reports.

A showdown between Atlantic City, N.J.’s shuttered Revel Casino Hotel and the bondholders behind its custom-built power plant is threatening to unravel a $110 million deal to sell the boardwalk resort to a Canadian private-equity firm. The Wall Street Journal has the DBR article here.

New Media Investment Group Inc. said it reached a deal to buy all Halifax Media Group-owned newspapers, WSJ reports.

Madoff bankruptcy liquidation costs have topped $1 billion, Bloomberg reports.

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