September 9, 2013

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Law:

Layoff Watch: The Cutting Continues
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Dewey and AMR Bankruptcies Collide in Fee Dispute
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Legal Services Sector Adds 2,700 Jobs in August
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Third-Year Class Wish List: Sesame Street And The Law
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Third-Year Class Wish List: Sesame Street And The Law
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Law Student Sues School For Making Him Retake a Class He Failed
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How Long Does It Take A Law Student To Buy A Suit?
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69% of Law Students Retained Their Conditional Merit Scholarships
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Thinking Like a Lawyer, Designing Like an Architect
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How A 'Punk' Bank Robber Became A Hugely Successful Law Student
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First-Year-Associate Pay Is Flat But N.J. Firms Stay Competitive
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Law Firm Arnall Golden Gregory Closes Miami Shop
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Global Finance Deal of the Year, Public Restructuring: Greece's Debt Restructuring
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SEC Attorney Lowers the Boom on the Agency
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Harvard Business School's Experiment To Improve Gender Equality
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The NSA Can Reportedly Access Most Smartphone Data --- The NSA Never Takes 'No' For An Answer
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Is the Depiction of Law & Order on ‘Law & Order’ Influencing Jurors? --- Lawyer: TV Show Taints Cases
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Driving Around Manhattan In 24 Minutes
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How I Got Through 25 Years In Federal Prison
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Mom Released After 2 Decades On Death Row
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Suspension, Probation For Upskirt Invasions Of Privacy
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Girlfriend, 69, found guilty of murder in slaying of lawyer, 79, and sentenced to life
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Crime labs under the microscope after a string of shoddy, suspect and fraudulent results
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Arkansas SWAT Team Kills 107 Year Old Man
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Zimmerman's Wife: He's Selfish
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Roadkill Now Legal
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Judges:

Top state court tells judge to cancel hearing on 30-day term for ex-teacher who admitted teen rape
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Suspended judge is sentenced for contempt and ordered to undergo competency exam
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Crime against fashion: judge locks up man for wearing fleece and tracksuit bottoms to court
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To Boldly Go Where Few Judges Have Gone Before: How the Bench is Using a Pop-Culture Sci-Fi Classic to Explain its Decisions
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Warren assails Supreme Court as too far right
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Wall Street:

US stock futures adopt upbeat tone
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Stocks close mixed after volatile session
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Layoffs:

It's Clear That The US Job Market Is Dead In The Water
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Labor Force Participation at 35 Year Low
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The State Of American Jobs In 18 Charts
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The Old Are Working, but Not the Young
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Tepid Jobs Report Muddies Fed Plans
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Fired MF Global Workers To Appeal Dismissal Of Lawsuit
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Why The Fed Will Reduce QE Even Though The Job Market Sucks
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Celebs:

Are Martha Stewart and JC Penney Breaking Up?
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Ex-Miami Dolphin Kenny Mixon Emerges From Bankruptcy With $18.51!
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Hotels:

Trenton hotel bankruptcy, sale plans follow more revelations about mounting costs
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Grand Station Hotel bankruptcy headed to trial
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Hotel Internet Provider iBAHN Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
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Coal:

Job numbers hit two-year low after Patriot closes mines
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Patriot Coal files bankruptcy reorganization plan
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Banking:

Banks bidding for Metropolitan
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Arvest, Simmons seek marketshare with Metropolitan deal
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Education:

Possible Buyer Comes Forward for Morris Brown
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Teachers fight for paychecks at Derrick Thomas' bankruptcy hearing
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Bankruptcy Crimes:

Bankruptcy fraud, jury tampering result in jail, fines
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Woman sentenced for not revealing money for Mercedes to bankruptcy court
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Gambling:

Florida Gaming Corporation Obtains Order Establishing Procedures for Trading in Common Stock
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Retailing:

J.C. Penney's Dilemma: To File or Not File
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Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus could be sold in $6B deal
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Money Market:

Settlement reached in Reserve Primary Fund lawsuit
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Consumer Finance:

Follow the Money: Payday Laundry Edition
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Electricity:

Energy Future Holdings, Texas Competitive CDS show severe stress
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Edison Mission Demands Parent's Cooperation in Probe
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Economy:

Payrolls in U.S. Rise Less Than Forecast; Jobless 7.3% --- This Was a Very Bad Jobs Report
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World Leaders Want Firms to Pay More Taxes
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America's Car Recovery Explains Economy
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Donald Kohn Speaks About Fed Taper
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How Syria Makes It Less Likely That Larry Summers Will Be Fed Chair
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Credit Suisse: It'll Take Missile Strikes On Syria During The FOMC Meeting For The Fed To Delay The Taper
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The Federal Reserve Has A Demographics Problem — An Aging Society Is Making Monetary Policy Less Effective
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Timeline on the Great Recession
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Investors Think Central Banks Will Fail
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Five years after Lehman, all tickety-boo?
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How Ethnic Groups Are Divided Across America
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

Left with nothing - Homeowners lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in equity over hundreds of dollars in tax liens.
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DC tax liens lead to hundreds of home foreclosures --- Where tax lien foreclosures occur in the District
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Five Years Later, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Remain Unfinished Business
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Loss Mitigation Program: Sooner Or Later a Court May Lose Patience With a Dilatory Mortgagee
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A Goldman Exec Bought The Only Freestanding Mansion In Manhattan For $14 Million
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Wife breaks down in court as lawyer gets over 7 years in $30M mortgage fraud case
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Bidder buys 1-foot-wide strip of Napeague land for $120,000
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Corporate Reform:

Inside the End of the U.S. Bid to Punish Lehman Executives
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Municipalities:

Detroit defends constitutionality of bankruptcy protection
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NAACP asks judge to clear way for lawsuit protesting EM law
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Detroit State Court Seeks Involvement in City Bankruptcy
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Orr vows Detroit residents will soon see better city services
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Detroit files response to bankruptcy objections
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Report: $1 billion in bonus payments helped deplete Detroit pension funds --- Misspent retirement funds 'robbed' Detroit's General pension
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Bankruptcy developments: Detroit files 135-page Chapter 9 justification and report says pension funds were misspent
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Detroiters discuss consequences of bankruptcy at Conyers forum --- Crowd expresses anger over Detroit's bankruptcy at forum
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Next move in Detroit bankruptcy happens Wednesday
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Gov. Rick Snyder to journalists: Detroit's bankruptcy is a positive
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The City Strikes Back: Legal Papers Argue Bankruptcy Was The Only Option
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Detroit had no choice but bankruptcy , city says in response to creditors
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Krystal Crittendon aids others in bankruptcy challenge
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Three Signs Of The Havoc The Bankruptcy Process Is Wreaking On Detroit
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Snyder, Dillon Subpoenaed In Detroit's Bankruptcy
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Chongqing mayor full of advice for Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on boosting economy
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The truth about Detroit: Rush Limbaugh's top Detroit distortions
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Detroit's vow to pay trade creditors follows bankruptcy precedents
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Stockton: Pension fight is on
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Stockton: What it's like living in a bankrupt city
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Stockton: Ports balk at records request
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The Story Of The DIA: 128 Years Of Fortune And Crisis
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Detroit brings default risk front and center
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Will interest rates delay JeffCo's plan to exit bankruptcy by end of 2013? --- How troubled Jeffco could miss its deadline to exit bankruptcy by end of year
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A sense of civic frustration in beleaguered San Bernardino
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Charleston, W. Va., fights to avoid Detroit-like bankruptcy
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The Best City In The World
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What's The Worst Thing That Could Happen In Your State?
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NJ Poverty Hits 52 Year High
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Rout Opens Opportunity for Investors Seeking Yield
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Alternative Energy:

Ohio Attorney General files lawsuits against defunct Perrysburg solar company
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The Solar Revolution Is For Real
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Brokers:

Peregrine Founder Wasendorf Will Face Questions From Son
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Tax:

Tax Evaders Are Smuggling Money Out Of Switzerland In Their Underwear
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Fraud:

Firms Sweat Liability - Chadbourne, Proskauer deny sharing blame in $7 billion Stanford scheme
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Prominent Doctor Said to Be Tied to Insider Trading Case at SAC
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Student Debt:

Taxpayers Should Worry When JPMorgan Gets Crowded Out Of The Student Loan Business
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Autos:

Ford's Alan Mulally denies reports of early exit, to stay through 2014
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S&P Approval of GM, Ford Reflects Industry Recovery
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South Bend company taking over defunct Mich. van maker --- Energy Department loses $42M on loan to defunct Michigan company that made vans for disabled
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Imaging:

Post- bankruptcy Kodak cause for guarded optimism
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(5 new opinions today - DBN)

Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory

Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings (26 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (__ new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
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UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Bankruptcy Jobs:

(1)- (2)- (3)- (4)- (5)- (6)- (7)- (8)- (9)- (10)
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)

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Bankruptcy Statistics:

Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Jurisdiction:

Seventh Circuit sides with Sixth Circuit in Stern Split
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Professional Compensation:

Michigan District Court Rejects Blanket Fee Reduction, Requires Specific Explanation of Fee Awards and Reductions
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Avoidance Actions:

Limitation Period for Trustee Avoidance Action Expanded?
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Third Circuit Finds That Pennsylvania’S Fraudulent Transfer Statute Allows Punitive Damage Awards
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Litigation Trustee Starts Mass NewPage Corporation Bankruptcy Preference Adversary Proceedings
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Mass Torts:

Possible Fraud By Lawyers Cited in Deepwater Horizon Oil-Spill Fund
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BP Spill Claims Administrator Cleared in Ethics Probe
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Health Care:

Fairbanks behavioral center to file bankruptcy , reorganize
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Obamacare Insurance Costs Affordable, Kaiser Survey Finds
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90% of Large Employers to Keep Health Care
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IBM to transfer US retirees to healthcare exchanges next year
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Food/Beverage:

Why the Tax Man Might Help Abolish Automatic Tipping
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Sporting Goods:

N.J.'s Prince aims to bounce back into tennis players' hearts, hands after bankruptcy
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Rail:

Railroad seeks financing for 2-person crews
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Religion:

Bankruptcy looming for Stockton diocese --- Sex Abuse Lawsuit Settlements Could Bankrupt Diocese of Stockton
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Museums:

Va. slavery museum pondering options to stop sale
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Agriculture:

Sale of Madonia farming empire approved by bankruptcy court
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Non-Profits:

Will This Dance Group’s Fast Footwork in the Face of Bankruptcy Be Sufficient?
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Pensions:

Pensions Are Still Making Ludicrous Assumptions About Future Returns
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Sovereigns:

Judge could lift debt ruling stay, pushing Argentina toward a destabilizing default
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A victory for vultures on Argentinian debt
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Argentina before the NY appeals court hoping ‘vulture’ funds litigation extends into 2014/15
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Argentina Exchange Bondholders Seek Rehearing in Appeal Case
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UK:

The Scottish Professional Football League new insolvency rules
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Trek builder boldly goes bankrupt
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Deloitte hit with record-breaking £14m MG Rover fine
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EU:

Eurozone Investor Sentiment Explodes
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PIIGS:

Monte Paschi Wins Backing From EU's Almunia for Aid Plan
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ie: New insolvency office faces flood of applications --- 4500 people contact Insolvency Service before opening --- Fears raised over personal insolvency fees --- We can finally turn the tables and say 'no' to lenders --- Debt deals could be more trouble than they're worth --- Jillian hopes to be among first to 'wipe slate clean' --- Yates shaken by public ire after return from exile --- Insolvency official highlights spouses --- Spouse of bankrupts must buy share to secure home --- Irish seek new EU credit line to ease bailout exit
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Greek premier promises recovery from 2014
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China:

China's Huge Wealth Gap
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Benign inflation adds to sense Chinese economy is recovering
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Chinese Zombies Emerging After Years of Solar Subsidies
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Slovenia:

Slovenia Liquidates Two Banks to Stave Off Cyprus Fate
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MENA:

Calls for a new bankruptcy law are getting louder
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US Strikes on Syria Will be Limited
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Obama Sets Tuesday for Big Speech on Syria
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Norway:

Norway Has More Money Than It Knows What To Do With
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