April 13, 2007

Daily Bankruptcy News

Brought to you by BKINFORMATION.COM - The Source for Bankruptcy News on the Internet 

Also available on the Web (with links to the news stories) http://bkinformation.com/News/DailyNews.htm
Prior editions: http://bkinformation.com/bankruptcy_news.htm
Search prior headlines: http://bkinformation.com/PriorEditionsSearch.html
Search prior New Opinions: http://bkinformation.com/NewOpinions_Search.html
         

Aviation:

Air France denies report it may take stake in Delta, NWA
(DBN Subscription Required)

Taxpayers Win One--Finally--With Northwest
(DBN Subscription Required)

Pilots' average Ch. 11 claim worth $185946
(DBN Subscription Required)

Airline business to be profitable in '07
(DBN Subscription Required)

Delta pilots take cash over stock
(DBN Subscription Required)

___________

Law:

Cadwalader Recruits Three Leading Restructuring Special Counsels
(DBN Subscription Required)

Behind Loeb & Loeb's Growth Spurt
(DBN Subscription Required)

Firms Strive to Ensure the Calm Will Endure the Storm
(DBN Subscription Required)

Observers should be asking not why US firms have made progress in London but why it has taken them so long to travel such a modest distance
(DBN Subscription Required)

Pellicano lawyers act to shift case's focus
(DBN Subscription Required)

Clifford Chance And Moscow's Mystery, Exploding Lightbulb
(DBN Subscription Required)

Clifford Chance announces UK salary rises
(DBN Subscription Required)

Clifford Chance fires payrise starting gun with 15% UK associate hike
(DBN Subscription Required)

Say What?!
(DBN Subscription Required)

A Law Unto Itself ? Aaron Charney v Sullivan & Cromwell Returns to Court
(DBN Subscription Required)

___________

Corporate Reform:

BlackBerry maker warns SEC has stepped up probe
(DBN Subscription Required)

Corporate Crime Prosecutor Plays Hard
(DBN Subscription Required)

Black defense is 'our lawyers told us to'
(DBN Subscription Required)

Black trial dull, dull, dull
(DBN Subscription Required)

Payments Should Go Through Black's Firm, Lawyer Said
(DBN Subscription Required)

The Day The Canadian Law Firm Had Been Dreading - Handling The Conrad Black Problem
(DBN Subscription Required)

___________

Student Debt:

Student-Loan Shenanigans
(DBN Subscription Required)

Fiduciary Duty and Financial Aid
(DBN Subscription Required)

Q&A on Student Loan Probe
(DBN Subscription Required)

Sallie Mae Shares Rise on Report of Buyout Talks
(DBN Subscription Required)

Duquesne, Drexel paid commissions by student loan provider
(DBN Subscription Required)

College Administrator's Dual Roles Are a Focus of Student Loan Inquiry
(NYT: separate free registration required)

____________

Utilities:

ENO to Get Funds, Insurance Payment
(DBN Subscription Required)

_____________

Economy:

Consumer spending outlook hazy despite strong March
(DBN Subscription Required)

Jobless claims hit highest level in two months
(DBN Subscription Required)

Housing worries are giving way to concerns about weak business spending as the biggest cloud hanging over the U.S. economy
(WSJ: separate paid subscription required)

____________

Pensions:

PBGC taking on Anchor Hocking plan
(DBN Subscription Required)

___________

 

  

Autos:

GM kicks butt in pensionland
(DBN Subscription Required)

Collins & Aikman's proposed auction rules draw objections
(DBN Subscription Required)

Chrysler bidders chat up dealers
(DBN Subscription Required)

_____________

Banking:

Citi may shift 9500 jobs to India
(DBN Subscription Required)

Wolfowitz fights for job after memo
(DBN Subscription Required)

___________

Telecoms:

Vonage Founder Citron Replaces Chief, Plans Job Cuts
(DBN Subscription Required)

Vonage on the Verge
(DBN Subscription Required)

___________

Fitness:

Bally gets forbearance agreement from lenders
(DBN Subscription Required)

___________

Religion:

Spokane Catholic bishop rejects call to resign
(DBN Subscription Required)

Spokane bishop, wealthy contributors at odds over sex abuse settlement
(DBN Subscription Required)

Group calls for Skylstad's resignation
(DBN Subscription Required)

Bishop tells parishioners Catholic community on hook for abuse costs
(DBN Subscription Required)

$14 million loan to finish school cleared by judge
(DBN Subscription Required)

98 parishes, 770 bank accounts
(DBN Subscription Required)

______________

Tax:

Felon tells Congress of ease in defrauding IRS
(DBN Subscription Required)

IRS seeks fewer criminal prosecutions
(DBN Subscription Required)

___________

Academia:

Chapter 11 Textbooks
(DBN Subscription Required)

Looking Back at the Oldies (Cases)
(DBN Subscription Required)

___________

Enron:

FERC orders hearings on Enron lawyers and consultants
(DBN Subscription Required)

Skilling's lawyer calls for better access to witnesses
(DBN Subscription Required)

__________

Health Care:

More problems at 2 hospitals
(DBN Subscription Required)

Fitch Downgrades Dimensions Health Corporation (Maryland) to 'CC'
(DBN Subscription Required)

Hospital's future cloudy in wake of deal's collapse
(DBN Subscription Required)

Lawmakers not sold on suing KPMG
(DBN Subscription Required)

___________

Food/Drink:

No ruling on Pittsburgh Brewing reorganization
(DBN Subscription Required)

Proposed Buyer of Pittsburgh Brewing Asks For One More Week
(DBN Subscription Required)

Pittsburgh Brewing's fate rests with water authority
(DBN Subscription Required)

___________

Queen Lease
(DBN Subscription Required)

California Exemptions in Bankruptcy Increased
(DBN Subscription Required)

New Bankruptcy Opinions
(No new opinions today) 

Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory

Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
(DBN Subscription Required)

Recent Ch. 11 Filings
(DBN Subscription Required)

Bankruptcy Jobs:

(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11)
(DBN Subscription Required)

___________

More Courts Are Rejecting 'Deepening Insolvency' Claim
(DBN Subscription Required)

Real Estate:

How will the subprime meltdown play out?
(DBN Subscription Required)

New Century Bank fears subprime lender will ruin its good name
(DBN Subscription Required)

Subprime Mortgage Problems Dominating Bankruptcy Filings, Lawyers Say
(DBN Subscription Required)

Bankruptcy watchdogs protest New Century bonus plan
(DBN Subscription Required)

Subprime Foreclosures On The Rise?
(DBN Subscription Required)

Groups Want Bankruptcy, Mortgage Reform
(DBN Subscription Required)

Pink slips litter loan industry
(DBN Subscription Required)

Bankruptcy Laws Hurting Subprime Borrowers?
(DBN Subscription Required)

Mortgage lender SouthStar in Chapter 7 bankruptcy
(DBN Subscription Required)

A Word of Advice During a Housing Slump: Rent
(NYT: separate free registration required)

Subprime Over-reactions Killing Deals?
(DBN Subscription Required)

Spinning subprime storm - Buzz abounds on who gets blamed and who gets bailed
(DBN Subscription Required)

____________

Corporate Governance:

More Independent Directors Seek Insurance Coverage
(DBN Subscription Required)

__________

Mass Torts:

An upcoming ruling is expected to undercut the legal foundation for all 1,000 Vioxx cases brought against Merck by Texas plaintiffs
(WSJ: separate paid subscription required)

____________

Bankruptcy Reform:

Even Creditors Don't Like the New Bankruptcy Law
(DBN Subscription Required)

_____________

Predatory Lending:

Payday Lenders Told to Release Documents
(DBN Subscription Required)

___________

Derivatives:

SEC Aide Sees Insider Trading Risk In Credit-Default Swaps
(DBN Subscription Required)

___________

Publishing:

Advanced Marketing Services Announces Agreements for Sale of Bookwise, Publishers Group UK, and H.I. Marketing
(DBN Subscription Required)

___________

Canada:

Chromos cuts staff, plans to file for bankruptcy
(DBN Subscription Required)

_____________

Australia:

Bankruptcy figures spark call for lending rules
(DBN Subscription Required)

____________

Argentina:

Holders of Argentine debt are going on the offensive
(DBN Subscription Required)

___________

 

Please note that the Daily Bankruptcy News is primarily a news link gathering service.   This means that most of the headlines contained in the publication are a collection of links to stories posted on the Internet by various third party publications.  Such content is owned by third party sources, not the Daily Bankruptcy News, and in some cases, these links change or expire, which means you may not be able to view some news stories in prior editions of the Daily Bankruptcy News. 

The DBN subscription fee for access to certain links is not a fee for access to the content of the links, but is a charge for the considerable work involved in gathering, organizing and presenting the links. Use of this site and The Daily Bankruptcy News is subject to our Terms of Use.

If you received the Daily Bankruptcy News via email (and you have a paid subscription account), to view a news story, click on the headline, and the story should open in your web browser. To view additional stories, click back to the email and click on additional headlines, which will cause new stories to open in your web browser.  You can view the Daily Bankruptcy News on the web by clicking here, or by going to BKINFORMATION.COM and clicking on the Bankruptcy News button.  Note that the Daily Bankruptcy News is distributed via "HTML email" in which the links to the news stories are embedded in the headlines.  The email you receive should look like a 3-column newspaper, with headlines for each story. If you receive the Daily Bankruptcy News by email and the copy you receive is not formatted like a 3-column newspaper, or does not seem to contain links to the news stories, you may have an email client that is not capable of receiving HTML email, or is not configured to display such email.  You can however, receive a daily email notifying you when the Daily Bankruptcy News is updated on the web site. If you would like to receive such an email, please let us know at admin@bkinformation.com.

You can search the headlines from prior editions of the Daily Bankruptcy News by clicking here.

Advertising
Advertising is available in the Daily Bankruptcy News in a variety of places, formats and prices. Go to http://bkinformation.com/DBN_ADs.htm  for a list of choices.  Feel free to contact us with any questions.

Passwords
Access to certain links in the Daily Bankruptcy News is available only to readers holding a paid subscription.  These links are currently marked with a "DBN Subscription Required" notation. The cost of a subscription is $50/year, payable annually.  Volume discounts are available for sites with multiple users. Click here to see a schedule of discounts. Complimentary subscriptions are available for full-time educational and governmental employees and for full time students. For information about discounts or educational/governmental subscriptions, contact us by clicking here. A separate password is required for each member of a firm wishing access to restricted links. New readers can receive a free password good for 30 days by going to http://bkinformation.com/RegistrationForm.cfm. Readers who wish to change their passwords should go to http://bkinformation.com/ChangePasswordForm.cfm. Readers who have forgotten their password should go to http://bkinformation.com/GetPassword.cfm. 

Adding Your Email Address To The Distribution List
If you would like to start receiving the Daily Bankruptcy News by email each day, go to http://bkinformation.com/SubscribeDBNForm.cfm  and fill in the information requested.  There is no charge to be placed on the distribution list to receive the headlines, although access to many of the links behind the headlines requires a paid subscription (see above, under Passwords). If, after adding your email address to the distribution list, you do not receive an email confirming the addition, please contact us by clicking here for help.  

Removing Your Email Address From The Distribution List
If you already receive Daily Bankruptcy News by email and you wish to remove your email address from the distribution list, click here and send the email that should appear.  Note that the email must be sent from the same email address at which you are receiving the Daily Bankruptcy News. You do not need to type anything in the body of the email message.   If you do not receive an email confirming deletion of your email address from the distribution list  for the publication, contact us by clicking here for help.

Daily Bankruptcy News is published each business day by BKINFORMATION.COM, L.L.C.  You can reach us at 281-242-6208 or at accounting@bkinformation.com