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November 19, 2024
AI School Tech Founder Stole $10M From Investors, DOJ Says
The founder of AllHere Education Inc., a startup venture that sold artificial intelligence-powered chatbots to schools, is charged with fleecing investors out of nearly $10 million by lying about the company's revenue and using some of the money to pay for her wedding and a house, New York federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.
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November 19, 2024
Calif. Hotel Wants To Stay Open Through Another Ch. 11
A California judge on Tuesday asked bankrupt San Jose hotel owner SC SJ Holdings for more information about who owns the cash management account that the debtor wants to use to keep operating during its second run through Chapter 11.
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November 19, 2024
Catching Up With New Bankruptcy Case Action
Spirit Airlines filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing $3.6 billion in funded debt and unveiling a preapproved restructuring plan to convert $795 million of debt into equity. Dormify, Cosmed Group and PetroQuest Energy also sought bankruptcy protection, largely due to litigation-related challenges. Meanwhile, companies like Swedish debt collector Intrum and heat sealing equipment manufacturer SWC Industries blamed their financial struggles on rising interest rates, inflation, and broader macroeconomic pressures.
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November 19, 2024
Poll Workers Fight Giuliani Attys' Bid To Exit Collection Cases
Two of Rudy Giuliani's attorneys doubled down Tuesday on their attempt to withdraw as counsel in the $148 million defamation case against him, saying in a redacted letter that the two Georgia poll workers hoping to stop their withdrawal are unaware of the facts that led up to the request.
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November 19, 2024
Fluid Market Gets OK For Ch. 11 Loan, Dec. Asset Auction
A Delaware bankruptcy judge Tuesday gave truck rental business Fluid Market Inc. permission to take out Chapter 11 financing and accept a baseline bid for its assets after hearing the company's unsecured creditors had settled their objections.
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November 19, 2024
Alex Jones Seeks To Stop The Onion From Buying Infowars
Right-wing media fabulist Alex Jones asked a Texas bankruptcy judge to stop the sale of his Infowars website to satirical news publisher The Onion, arguing that the winning bid violated the court's bidding procedures order.
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November 19, 2024
College Decor Co. Dormify Hits Ch. 11 With Up To $50M Debt
Dormify Inc., a retailer that sells college gear and decor for dorms, filed for bankruptcy in Delaware, estimating between $10 million and $50 million in debt less than a week after a Pennsylvania federal court entered a default judgment against it in a lawsuit from an affiliate marketing firm.
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November 18, 2024
Backup Bidder For Jones' Infowars Wants The Onion Bid DQ'd
The Alex Jones-affiliated backup Chapter 7 auction bidder for Jones' right-wing website Infowars asked a Texas bankruptcy judge Monday to disqualify the winning bid from The Onion, a satirical news website, arguing that the bid did not follow the auction procedures.
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November 18, 2024
The Onion Wants To Buy Infowars, Diamond Sports' Plan OK'd
Satirical news outlet The Onion emerged as the winner of a Chapter 7 auction for Alex Jones' Infowars show, Diamond Sports clinched a Chapter 11 plan approval and new bankruptcy filings by both businesses and consumers have grown by 16% over the past year.
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November 18, 2024
Judge Will OK $88M Insurance Deal For Long Island Diocese
A New York bankruptcy judge on Monday approved an $88 million insurance settlement for Long Island's Roman Catholic diocese after being assured that sexual abuse claimants who pass up a payout from the diocese's Chapter 11 plan can pursue insurance claims on their own.
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November 18, 2024
Biopharm Co. Seelos Files For Ch. 11 After Nasdaq Delisting
Publicly traded biopharmaceutical company Seelos Therapeutics Inc. sought Chapter 11 protection in New York on Saturday, citing between $10 million and $50 million in estimated liabilities.
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November 18, 2024
Proskauer Atty Is Part Of 'Rich' Harvard Football Tradition
Proskauer bankruptcy partner and longtime Harvard football public address announcer Chad Dale had no experience when he became the voice of the football program 33 years ago, but he followed in his late grandfather's footsteps and received an influential endorsement for the gig from his grieving grandmother.
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November 15, 2024
Giuliani Gets New Atty As Poll Workers Seek To Collect $148M
Two days after Rudy Giuliani's lawyers asked a federal judge to allow them to withdraw from representing him in a pair of cases from former Georgia poll workers seeking to collect a $148 million defamation award against him, the embattled former mayor of New York found himself new representation.
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November 15, 2024
Vroom Gets Interim OK For Ch. 11 Plan Disclosures
A Texas bankruptcy judge conditionally signed off Friday on the disclosure statement for Vroom Inc.'s Chapter 11 plan, after the defunct used car sales and financing company agreed to revise language regarding the releasing party in its vote solicitation materials to resolve an objection from the U.S. Trustee's Office.
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November 15, 2024
PetroQuest Gets Interim OK To Tap $847K In Del. Ch. 11
A Delaware bankruptcy judge Friday granted interim permission for oil and gas company PetroQuest Energy Inc. to access $847,500 of new money financing from its lenders as it plans to sell its assets in East Texas.
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November 15, 2024
Under The Radar: Bankruptcy News You May Have Missed
A New York bankruptcy judge denied retail creditors to Celsius Network discovery into the crypto lender's bankruptcy plan administration, Johnson & Johnson's talc unit bit back at efforts to dismiss its Chapter 11 case, and the Archdiocese of New Orleans established non-monetary child protections with its unsecured creditors. Here are some bankruptcy stories that may have slipped past you this week.
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November 15, 2024
Colo. Judge Nixes Debtor's Transfer Try For Not Conferring
A Colorado federal judge on Friday struck a motion to transfer a putative class action suit against a bankrupt truck rental company to the Delaware court handling the business's Chapter 11 case, saying the company had failed to consult with the plaintiffs before filing the motion.
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November 15, 2024
Meet The Attys Guiding Alex Jones Through Chapter 7
As right-wing media fabulist Alex Jones awaits the final outcome of an auction for his InfoWars website, he's being led through Chapter 7 by a team of attorneys from Elliott Thomason & Gibson LLP and Jordan & Ortiz PC.
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November 15, 2024
Property Plays: Franchise Group, Kushner, Astrodome
Property Plays is a weekly roundup of the latest loans, leases, sales and projects around the country. Send your tips — all confidential — to realestate@law360.com.
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November 15, 2024
Girardi Seeks Sentencing Delay Amid Atty's Departure
Disbarred attorney Tom Girardi is asking a California federal judge for more time before his sentencing date because a key member of his legal team is leaving the Federal Public Defender's Office on Monday.
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November 15, 2024
Ex-McElroy Deutsch Exec Says Firm Has No Claim On House
The former McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP business development director whose husband pled guilty to stealing millions from the firm has argued that the time has come for the court to toss an attempt by the firm to put her house in a constructive trust.
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November 15, 2024
UAE Defense Contractor Facing Questions On Quitting Ch. 11
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Friday said she would allow a competitor and arbitration award claimant of an Abu Dhabi-based defense contractor limited discovery into the company's decision not to fight the dismissal of its Chapter 11 case.
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November 15, 2024
Eletson To Appeal Order Confirming Rival Ch. 11 Plan
Gas tanker operator Eletson Holdings Inc. has opened an appeal of a New York bankruptcy judge's confirmation of a Chapter 11 plan proposed by petitioning creditors, according to a notice of the move.
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November 15, 2024
Sterilization Co. Cosmed Hits Ch. 11 Amid Cancer Claims
Sterilization company Cosmed Group Inc. filed for Chapter 11 protection in a Texas bankruptcy court Thursday with over $100 million in liabilities, much of it related to cancer claims over the gas that it uses for sterilization.
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November 15, 2024
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen Ocado file an intellectual property claim against an African fruit and vegetable importer, a claim filed against a Swiss bank founded by Indian billionaire Srichand Parmanand Hinduja and 300 individuals sue travel company TUI. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.