The Daily Docket: Lawmaker Seeks Solyndra Probe

The Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is calling for Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint an examiner in Solyndra LLC’s bankruptcy case to investigate the financial relationship between the Department of Energy and the company. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review story here in The Wall Street Journal

The Los Angeles Dodgers’ proposal to auction off the baseball team’s future television broadcast rights is designed to negate a possible challenge from Major League Baseball. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review story here.

Chuck Greenberg, who bought the Texas Rangers baseball team, is interested in making a play for the National Hockey League’s Dallas Stars, an attorney for Greenberg said Monday. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review Small Cap story here.

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General Motors Co. is open to deepening its relationship with China’s SAIC Motor Corp. and could expand the collaboration beyond existing tie-ups in China and India, GM Chairman and Chief Executive Dan Akerson told WSJ in a recent interview.

The Philly Pops have agreed to split from the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, ending a six-year experiment that was bumpy from the start, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

A prominent Alabama lawmaker is vowing to block Jefferson County’s debt settlement deal, Bloomberg reports.