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23andMe Ch. 11 Sale Sparks DNA Privacy Oversight Battle
The bankrupt ancestry testing company 23andMe, more than two dozen state attorneys general, and the federal government agree on one thing: Privacy concerns over the sale of individual genetic profiles for the company's 15 million customers should be a top priority.

Under the Radar: Bankruptcy News You May Have Missed
A Burger King franchisee went bankrupt after a dispute with the corporation; individuals suing Johnson & Johnson over talc liability tried to revive the pharmaceutical giant's Texas two-step bankruptcy; and supplement company Irwin Naturals lost control of its bankruptcy case.

Meet The Attys Leading Global Clean Energy In Ch. 11
A group of lawyers from Norton Rose Fulbright and Kirkland & Ellis LLP is representing renewable fuel company Global Clean Energy Holdings Inc.'s Chapter 11, as the company is holding a prearranged restructuring plan supported by most of its secured lenders.
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A Manhattan federal judge trimmed a $47 million lawsuit from the bankrupt retailer once known as Bed Bath & Beyond accusing GameStop's CEO of insider trading before the housewares giant went belly-up, but says... (more story)
Reorganized Greek oil shipping group Eletson Holdings Inc. has told a New York bankruptcy judge that Reed Smith LLP should stop representing the company and its former owners in litigation and appeals or face sanctions.
Milbank LLP has added a longtime Skadden counsel as a partner in its financial restructuring group in the New York office, as part of the firm's ongoing global expansion of its restructuring practice.
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Friday approved Zips Car Wash's $279 million debt-swap reorganization, overriding the U.S. Trustee's office's arguments against the plan's claims releases for third parties.
Gryphon Digital Mining has sued its former counsel K&L Gates LLP, claiming it dropped the ball on a bankruptcy filing that cost the company millions of dollars and complicated another legal case, all while all... (more story)
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Thursday approved telecommunications group Mitel Networks' disclosures regarding its prepackaged Chapter 11 plan and confirmed the company's reorganization proposal, overruling an o... (more story)
A Texas bankruptcy judge gave Excela Technologies the go-ahead for a $5 million transaction as a stopgap while the payment processing company works to resolve objections to the final order for its proposed $18... (more story)
Clothing retailer Forever 21 reached an agreement with the U.S. Trustee late Wednesday that will allow the company to retain law firm Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP as special counsel related to ass... (more story)
A Delaware bankruptcy judge has allowed the FTX Recovery Trust to serve a $1.76 billion clawback suit against Binance via alternative means, saying the trust may serve the suit on two ex-Binance executives by ... (more story)
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Thursday provisionally approved skilled nursing facility operator Petersen Health Care's bid to send its Chapter 11 liquidation plan out to creditors for voting, months after the... (more story)
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Bankrupt coal producer Heritage Coal & Natural Resources LLC has asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to reject the asserted liens of the company's former owner and general manager, saying the debtor's equipment ... (more story)
Executives with BIA Separations, the U.S. subsidiary of an Austrian biotechnology company, have asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to delay granting the foreign company Chapter 15 recognition until efforts to r... (more story)
A Texas bankruptcy court on Thursday granted fracking services provider Nitro Fluids' motion to sell some of its assets to a stalking horse bidder for almost $10 million.
Movie production and finance company Village Roadshow Entertainment Group asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to approve a new stalking horse in its Chapter 11, saying the $417.5 million bid for its library tops... (more story)
A law firm that bought thousands of client files left over from the collapse of bankrupt California-based debt relief business Litigation Practice Group PC has agreed to pay nearly $1 million to the bankruptcy... (more story)
An insurer for bus operator Coach USA Inc. asked a Delaware bankruptcy court to find that it does not owe commercial auto liability coverage for certain claims arising out of Coach's operations that are insure... (more story)
Dorsey & Whitney LLP has fortified its bankruptcy and financial restructuring group in Delaware and New York with an attorney who came aboard from the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Third Circuit vacated a Delaware bankruptcy judge's order to unseal records a successor of Essar Steel's U.S. unit is seeking to bolster its antitrust claims against Cleveland-Cliffs, ruling Wednesday that... (more story)
The Chapter 11 plan of skin care technology company Cutera Inc. received approval Wednesday from a Texas bankruptcy court, with an opt-out mechanism for third-party releases intact over the objection of the U.... (more story)
A Connecticut appeals court's $150 million paring of a $1.44 billion judgment against Infowars host Alex Jones for defaming the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims' families was a shift away from a b... (more story)