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  • July 31, 2025

    Capital One Says It Is Disputing FDIC Underpayment Claim

    Capital One told investors on Thursday that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is trying to make it pay a greater share of cleanup costs from the 2023 regional banking crisis after taking issue with its call reporting, an effort the bank said it is pushing back on. 聽

  • July 31, 2025

    Casino Developer Must Stay In Involuntary Ch. 7, Judge Finds

    A Delaware bankruptcy judge has refused to throw out or convert the involuntary Chapter 7 proceedings launched against the onetime hopeful developer of a casino in Mississippi, concluding the creditors that forced it into bankruptcy did not act in bad faith.

  • July 31, 2025

    New Orleans Diocese Working On $180M Ch. 11 Plan Docs

    The bankrupt Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans asked a Louisiana judge for additional time Thursday to work on resolving opposition to its Chapter 11 plan disclosure statement that describes a $180 million settlement fund to provide recoveries to victims of childhood sexual abuse.

  • July 31, 2025

    Sand Miners Hit Ch. 11, Blaming Order Lull, Lender Issues

    Two companies that mine and process sand for fracking have filed for bankruptcy in Texas, one estimating it had at least $50 million in debt and the other estimating at least $100 million, and asked to undergo a joint Chapter 11 in response to a liquidity crunch and issues with their secured lender.

  • July 31, 2025

    Rising Star: Willkie's Stuart Lombardi

    Stuart Lombardi of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has worked for bankruptcy clients including families seeking defamation payouts in Alex Jones' insolvency and the representative of as-yet-unknown asbestos claimants in a talc producer's Chapter 11, earning him a spot among the bankruptcy law practitioners under age 40 honored by 极速赛车 as Rising Stars.

  • July 31, 2025

    Sunnova Cleared To Sell Assets To Lenders In Ch. 11

    Solar panel business Sunnova Energy International Inc. secured a Texas bankruptcy judge's blessing Thursday to sell almost all of its assets to a group of lenders for about $118 million.

  • July 30, 2025

    3rd Circ. Won't Upend Investors' Class Cert. In J&J Talc Suit

    A split Third Circuit on Wednesday upheld a New Jersey federal judge's class certification order in a Johnson & Johnson investor action alleging the company artificially inflated its stock price by failing to disclose cancer risks associated with its talcum powder products, finding the lower court did not err in concluding that common issues predominate in the suit.

  • July 30, 2025

    2nd Circ. Backs Live Well Founder's Bond Fraud Convictions

    The Second Circuit affirmed convictions for Live Well's founder for inducing lenders to extend credit by jacking up bond valuations to increase its debt and borrow against it, ruling Wednesday jurors had enough evidence to determine he misrepresented the value of collateral to secure loans and did so with fraudulent intent.

  • July 30, 2025

    Rhodium Says Cooling System Infringement Claims Barred

    Bankrupt cryptocurrency miner Rhodium told a Texas federal bankruptcy judge that a company that creates large scale cooling systems cannot bring patent infringement claims, saying Wednesday the company's claims already failed in a federal district court.

  • July 30, 2025

    Justices Urged To OK Bankruptcy Courts As Tax Debt Venues

    Bankruptcy courts are authorized to decide the amount and legality of nondischargeable tax claims, an Indiana couple told the U.S. Supreme Court in a bid to overturn a Seventh Circuit ruling to the contrary.

  • July 30, 2025

    Judge Unsure Of Broad Liability Shield Theory In Fraud Suits

    A Michigan federal judge on Wednesday pressed an attorney representing automation equipment manufacturers in fraudulent transfer suits on if their argument that their system of layered automated credit payments frees them from liability would allow every business to get around an act designed to prevent fraud in the construction industry.

  • July 30, 2025

    Celsius Administrator Gets OK To Continue Clawbacks

    A New York bankruptcy judge shot down challenges to attempts by the Chapter 11 plan administrator for Celsius Networks to claw back transfers, saying a settlement provision didn't prevent the administrator from pursuing the clawbacks and the transactions fall under U.S. jurisdiction.

  • July 30, 2025

    Rising Star: Brown Rudnick's Tristan Axelrod

    Tristan Axelrod of Brown Rudnick LLP steered bankrupt cryptocurrency platform BlockFi through an $874 million settlement with FTX and a Chapter 11 reorganization that paid creditors in full, earning him a spot among the bankruptcy law practitioners under age 40 honored by 极速赛车 as Rising Stars.

  • July 29, 2025

    Jackson Walker Gets Another Deal On Judge-Romance Claims

    Jackson Walker LLP has reached another settlement with former bankruptcy clients to resolve fee disputes related to the concealed romance of a former partner with the firm and former Texas bankruptcy Judge David R. Jones, according to a motion filed Tuesday in Texas federal court.

  • July 29, 2025

    8th Circ. Says Bankruptcy Sale Appeal Dead Without Stay

    The Eighth Circuit on Tuesday rejected a woman's bid to undo an order approving a sale in her Chapter 7 bankruptcy, saying she didn't get a stay of the sale and so her appeal had to be dismissed.

  • July 29, 2025

    Prime Core Ch. 11 Trust Seeks Return Of $2.1M In Transfers

    The litigation trust for Prime Core Technologies has sued to claw back $2.1 million in cash and cryptocurrency paid out to customers in the weeks before its bankruptcy filing, saying other creditors are facing a serious recovery shortfall worsened by the payments.

  • July 29, 2025

    DOJ Drops Challenge Of Amex GBT's $570M Deal For CWT

    The U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday that enforcers have agreed to drop their case challenging American Express Global Business Travel Inc.'s planned $570 million purchase of corporate travel management rival CWT Holdings LLC.

  • July 29, 2025

    Law Firm Beats NJ Atty's Fraud Suit Under Anti-SLAPP Law

    Maurice Wutscher LLP got an attorney's fraud suit against it thrown out under New Jersey's anti-SLAPP law on Tuesday, allowing the firm to escape complex litigation across multiple venues stemming from the breakdown of a former New Jersey firm.

  • July 29, 2025

    Mich. Judge Sanctions Attys For False Case Quotations

    A Michigan federal judge on Monday ordered plaintiffs' attorneys in two cases against a robotics company to pay for the time opposing counsel took in filing an additional briefing because of false case quotations.

  • July 29, 2025

    Seeger Weiss Named Lead Negotiation Counsel In J&J MDL

    A New Jersey federal judge overseeing long-running multidistrict federal litigation against Johnson & Johnson over its talcum powder products has appointed Christopher A. Seeger of Seeger Weiss LLP to lead a negotiation team to guide plaintiffs through settlement talks.

  • July 29, 2025

    Rising Star: Weil's David Cohen

    David J. Cohen of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP has represented Steward Health Care in its sprawling Chapter 11 bankruptcy involving 31 hospitals across eight states, and he was selected to lead the firm's growing Miami office, earning him a spot among bankruptcy law practitioners under age 40 honored by 极速赛车 as Rising Stars.

  • July 29, 2025

    Rochester Diocese Judge To Approve $246M Ch. 11 Plan

    A New York bankruptcy judge said Tuesday he was prepared to approve the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester's $246.4 million settlement of abuse claims in Chapter 11 after survivors voted unanimously to accept the deal.

  • July 28, 2025

    UpHealth Moves To Toss Glocal Ch. 11 Dispute

    Bankrupt medical tech company UpHealth is urging a Delaware bankruptcy judge to nix a $200 million adversary proceeding launched by Glocal Healthcare in a bitter feud over an ill-fated merger, accusing the Indian digital healthcare services platform of bad faith through a pattern of delay and obfuscation.

  • July 28, 2025