Law:

Home Alone in New York: Reflections in the Time of #Corona
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Akin Gump Welcomes Debt Finance and Special Situations Partner Chad Nichols in Houston
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Firms offer ‘Bankruptcy 101’ sessions as defaults projected to skyrocket
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Am Law 100 Firm Furloughs Staff, No Other Cost-Cutting Measures For Now
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Sheppard Mullin Furloughs Staffers Who Can’t Do Jobs From Home
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Kilpatrick Cuts Pay for Lawyers and Staff as Firm Anticipates Revenue Decline
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Baker McKenzie to Cut U.S. Lawyer Pay 15%, Possibly Through 2020 • Baker McKenzie Proves Being A Huge Firm Doesn’t Stop The COVID-19 Salary Cuts
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After a Record Year, Venable Cuts Pay, Furloughs Some Staff to 'Prudently Prepare'
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Smith Gambrell Cuts Pay for All, but Nixes Layoffs as 'Prudent Management'
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The Latest In Biglaw Austerity: Yet Another Am Law 100 Firm Cutting Salaries
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Am Law 100 Firm Cuts Salaries, Eliminates Discretionary Bonuses
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Biglaw Poster Child For 2009 Layoffs Still Plans To Hold Summer Associate Program
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Boston Firms Make Cuts, Program Changes as COVID-19 Continues to Rattle Industry
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Lila Fenwick, Who Broke a Barrier at Harvard Law, Dies at 87
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Are Corporate Counsel Being Too Cutthroat About Contract Enforcement During COVID-19 Outbreak?
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Pennsylvania Bar Issues First Opinion on Remote Work Amid Crisis
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Law School Professor Muses That His Chinese Students Spread Coronavirus
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‘Partial’ Pass/Fail For Only SOME Classes Enters Pantheon Of Terrible Law School Responses
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Political Appointees Still Keeping Law Schools From Going Pass/Fail
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First State Opts For Emergency Diploma Privilege Plus Admission
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Ditching the Bar Exam Puts Public at Risk, Says Test Maker
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From Harvard to Ole Miss, Law Students’ Lives Disrupted by Virus
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Legal Risks From Virus in Reopenings Worry U.S. Business Group
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3 Considerations To Help Prevent Your IP From Becoming A Casualty In The COVID-19 Pandemic
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Virtual Happy Hours
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4 Steps To Growing A Legal Career In Sweatpants
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This Just In: Husbands Aren't Totally Useless During COVID-19
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With Restaurant Industry in Crisis, Arnold & Porter Takes a Seat at the Table
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Troutman and Pepper Cancel Summer Programs, Make Job Offers Amid COVID-19 Disruption
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The Justice Department Isn’t Giving Employees Enough Guidance On Working During The Coronavirus Pandemic, Workers Say
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Trump administration seeks to delay 2020 census deadlines because of the coronavirus outbreak
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Florida police chief allegedly said deputy died from coronavirus because he was gay
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More inmates, jailers testing positive as coronavirus continues to spread through jails
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No, Trump can’t order states to reopen: Constitutional scholars • Why Trump’s claim to have power to ‘open up’ states amid coronavirus is false • Trump says decision on coronavirus reopening belongs to him, not governors • FactCheck: "It is the decision of the President," not governors, to "open up the states" • John Yoo: Trump Can't Force States to Reopen • Trump Insists He Has ‘Total’ Authority to Supersede Governors • It’s Trump Versus the States as Virus Rages On
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'The Definition of Totalitarian': Lawyers Erupt as American President Asserts That His 'Authority Is Total' • Trump’s frightening claim of ‘total’ authority
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Trump said Apple and Google's COVID-19 tracing tech posed 'big constitutional problems'
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Fast-food workers file $500 million sexual harassment class-action lawsuit against McDonald's
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Emergency petition asks Supreme Court to allow medication abortions in Texas • Judge Blocks Alabama Abortion Ban • Abortion During a Pandemic? Texas Says No in Many Cases • Texas Ordered to Let Many Abortions Resume During Virus Crisis
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Texas County: $1,000 Fine for No Mask
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A woman was murdered following a dispute over 3 pairs of Yeezy sneakers — and it reveals a dark side of the $2 billion dollar resale industry
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Ohio man claiming to have coronavirus spat in bus driver’s face, cops say
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Judges:

In historic first, Supreme Court to hear arguments by phone • Supreme Court to hold teleconference arguments in Trump financial records cases • Supreme Court will start hearing cases by teleconference • Supreme Court Bows to Crisis With Arguments Via Telephone
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US Supreme Court Is Urged to Suspend Paper Filing Requirement
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Hit The Gym With Justice Ginsburg At ‘RBG’s Workout Corner’
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Wall Street:

Dow futures jump more than 200 points as virus outlook improves
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Dow slips 329 points as earnings-season worry creeps over the market • Stocks sell-off as market enters new phase, as earnings season begins
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Corporate profits will shrink 13% this quarter and kick off an earnings recession, Bank of America warns
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A hedge fund betting on turbulence raked in a 400% return last quarter as the coronavirus sent markets spinning, report says
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Leon Cooperman says market ahead of itself, earnings won’t be normal for 2 years
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'The next one has to be worse than 2008': Legendary investor Jim Rogers says you shouldn't trust the stock market's rally — and warns of a scenario where 'everything collapses for a while'
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Layoffs:

Trump’s Auto Rollback Will Eliminate 13,500 Jobs
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ESPN asks highest-paid commentators to take pay cut amid employee furloughs
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Bike parts company QBP, the country's largest, lays off 88 in mass video call
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Employers May Be Able to Avoid WARN Notices for Furloughs Under Six Months
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Virus Will Advance Use of Robots
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The coronavirus outbreak has triggered unprecedented mass layoffs and furloughs. Here are the major companies that have announced they are downsizing their workforces.
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Vox to announce around 100 employee furloughs later this week, sources say
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Politics:

‘It Is the Decision of the President’: Trump Falsely Claims He Can Order Governors to End Coronavirus Lockdown • Trump tweets that reopening the country from coronavirus lockdowns 'is the decision of the President,' but it's actually up to the states
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The damning sentence in the New York Times coronavirus exposé
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Inside the Coronavirus Task Force
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Americans' approval of the Trump administration's handling of the coronavirus has been steadily falling, but for the first time it's net negative
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Trump Berates Media at Jaw Dropping Briefing • 'The biggest meltdown ever' from a US president as Trump accused of trying to 'rewrite history' • Trump Defends His Coronavirus Record With Anger, and a Video
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Trump Re-Election Imperiled as Coronavirus Hits Key States
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Trump Campaign Claims NBC Affiliate Defamed the President by Airing Ad Using His Own Words
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FactCheck: Dr. Anthony Fauci "was telling people on February 29th that there was nothing to worry about and it posed no threat to the US public at large.
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Pelosi Nails What’s ‘Really Dangerous’ About Trump’s Coronavirus Misinformation
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The Huge Cost of Waiting to Contain the Pandemic
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Governors Team Up to Plan for Reopening, Rebuffing Trump
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House won’t return to DC until May unless it has to pass ‘emergency’ bill
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CDC head urged coronavirus ‘mitigation’ in late February
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Bernie Sanders endorses Joe Biden after dropping out of the 2020 race
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XFL files for bankruptcy after shutting down operations because of the coronavirus
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A Month After Emergency Declaration, Trump's Promises Largely Unfulfilled
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Trump campaign sues Wisconsin TV station over critical ad
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Dr. Fauci is still the most trusted leader in America on the coronavirus, while President Trump and Jared Kushner are in last place
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Trump will not fire Anthony Fauci despite #FireFauci retweet: White House
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Donald Trump hits out at top coronavirus expert Dr Fauci after he says president ignored advice • President Trump Promotes ‘Fire Fauci’ Tweet After Disease Doctor Critiques White House Coronavirus Response
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Try as he might, Trump can’t spin the pandemic
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Forced to choose between Trump and Fox, who would the president’s base pick?
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Roger Stone: Bill Gates may have created coronavirus to microchip people????
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Retailing:

COVID-19 will both complicate and accelerate retail bankruptcies
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Department stores are most at risk of default, S&P says
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Can these 10 retailers avoid permanent store closings amid coronavirus pandemic?
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'Make Tough Decisions': Coronavirus Plows Into Already Distressed Traditional Retailers
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Macy's 'exploring numerous options' to shore up finances
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At least 30 grocery store workers have died from the coronavirus, and their colleagues are pleading for shoppers to wear masks and respect social distancing
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The Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on the Retail Industry
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Denim retailer True Religion files for bankruptcy protection amid coronavirus crisis • True Religion Files for Bankruptcy Protection • True Religion Files For Bankruptcy—Again—As Coronavirus Hobbles Retail Industry
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Walmart clarifies nonessential items policy amid backlash
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Amazon to hire 75,000 more workers to cope with demand • Amazon says it's already hired 100,000 workers in 4 weeks during coronavirus crisis and plans to hire 75,000 more
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Rampant shipping delays and limited stock amid the coronavirus outbreak reveal why e-commerce hasn't defeated physical stores just yet
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Amazon is going to start accepting all non-essential products to its warehouses again this week, a month after pausing those shipments
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From hand sanitizer and toilet paper to yeast and hair clippers: Here's how Americans' spending habits have changed after weeks staying at home
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Major grocery worker union urges shoppers to wear masks during pandemic
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Distressed Investing:

M&A in the COVID Era – Part I – Dealing with Distress: Strategies for Buyers of Distressed Targets in the Post–COVID-19 Era
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‘Best Buying Opportunity Of The Century’ For Corporate Bonds.
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U.S. Junk Bond Default Rate Will Be At Its Highest Level In More Than Three Years
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Startups:

SoftBank forecasts record losses as startup bets backfire • This is how the fund behind WeWork, Uber, and Wag lost $16.5 billion in a year • SoftBank warns of a $17 billion loss at its Vision Fund • Bankers Keep Vision Fund Going With Rubber Bands
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Banking:

JPMorgan suffers sharp decline in first-quarter earnings as it braces for a coronavirus-fueled recession
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Non-Profits:

Nonprofits providing essential services warn of impending funding crisis
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Religion:

Kansas Supreme Court upholds order limiting church services to 10 people or less
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Bill Barr Threatens Local Officials Who Stop Christians From Spreading The Gospel Of Coronavirus
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Utilities:

Judge Rebukes PG&E for Bid to Pay $4M Criminal Fine From Fire Victims' Fund
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Economy:

Here is everything the Fed has done to save the economy
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The US states where the most jobs have been destroyed by the coronavirus crisis, in one map
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US Deficit Forecast Rises to $4 Trillion
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Leon Cooperman says gov’t shouldn’t let companies go bankrupt because of coronavirus
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Government should let airlines fail: Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya
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CEO Tells CNBC That Billion-Dollar Bailouts Of ‘Zombie Companies’ Serve To Reward Their Bad Behavior
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America Has Replaced Capitalism With Cronyism
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Mark Cuban says banks are leaving small businesses 'out in the cold' by acting too slowly with emergency loans
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How Bad Will the Economy Get? Companies Will Provide Clues
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Neel Kashkari Expects To Be Chopping Wood For Another Year And A Half
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Rich countries try radical economic policies to counter covid-19
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The public may never know which businesses are receiving hundreds of billions of dollars in coronavirus federal aid
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How COVID-19 could push Congress to start reining in vulture capitalism
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95% of L.A. supports stay-at-home orders, poll finds. But for how long? • Officials: Social distancing efforts appear to be working, should remain in place • When Coronavirus Lockdowns Go Too Far • Trump Says He Hopes to Reopen Country ‘Ahead of Schedule’ • Cuomo, Inslee Have the Better Grasp on Reopening Than Trump • New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says 'the worst is over' but warns coronavirus infections could spike again if we are 'reckless' • Cuomo stresses regional restart in talks with other states • 'There is strength in unity': New York Gov. Cuomo just unveiled a multistate coalition to reopen the economy after coronavirus • The committees to reopen America • Abbott: Texas Economy Will Gradually Reopen • California Gov. Gavin Newsom said a regional West Coast reopening plan is in the works for California, Washington, and Oregon • California will release plan about lifting virus constraints • 'A slap in the face': Furious Michiganders are planning to protest their governor's travel crackdowns in state capital • 7 governors still haven’t issued stay-at-home orders. Here’s why • What U.S. leaders say affects whether Americans stay at home, CDC data suggests
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Trump warned of small-business revolt if economy not opened soon • Small businesses start to get rescue funds, but payouts overall are lagging
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Will Small Business Survive The COVID Recession?
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Balboa Capital Survey Reveals 88% of Small Businesses are Being Impacted by the COVID-19 Outbreak
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No Business Leaders Appointed to Reopening Council • Oh Thank God: Trump Appoints Ivanka and Jared to Council to Reopen America
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Conservative groups mobilize and push White House to try and reopen economy despite coronavirus pandemic
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How countries should adapt to a ‘new normal’ as coronavirus lockdowns are lifted
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Trump's top trade adviser blasts 'tone-deaf' medical experts leading the US's coronavirus response and says the economic shutdown is worse than the virus
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Bank of America Can Favor Its Own Customers in Rescue Loan Program • Judge Denies Action Against Bank of America Over CARES Act Loans
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Indiana Man Who Received Stimulus Payment Finds $8.2 Million in His Bank Account
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Mnuchin Says 80 Million Americans to Get Virus Aid by Wednesday
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Over a Fourth of Michigan’s Workforce Has Filed for Unemployment
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How millions of veterans could miss out on coronavirus stimulus checks
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Coronavirus May Peak in US This Week
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CDC: We Need Antibody Tests for Second Wave • Trump’s Ambition to Reopen U.S. Hinges on Elusive Testing Surge • Walmart says it will be running more than 20 coronavirus test sites in 10 states by the end of April
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Mnuchin flexes muscles on airline coronavirus aid — a taste of what other companies may face
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Will you have to pay back the coronavirus stimulus check?
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When the coronavirus lockdowns end, we will live in a shrunken world
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Judge Denies Action Against Bank of America Over CARES Act Loans
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Bill Gates says the world is entering 'uncharted territory' because we're not prepared for a pandemic like COVID-19
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Pope Francis: ‘This may be the time to consider a universal basic wage’
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Coronavirus Chaos Is the IMF’s Biggest Test Ever
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US Debt Clock
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World Debt Clock
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How People Really Live
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Real Estate:

Potential Bankruptcy Strategies for Stakeholders in Real Estate Transactions; Relevant Provisions of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code
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Requests for government’s coronavirus mortgage bailout jump 78% in one week
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Homeowners Seeking Mortgage Relief With U.S. Economy Shuttered
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Lenders get stricter as some borrowers think they don’t have to pay
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Mnuchin Offers Reassurances on Stability of Mortgage Market
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Mortgages in forbearance jumped 1,396% in one month
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Chase now requires 700 FICO score, 20% down payment to buy a home
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It may be harder to get a mortgage after coronavirus crisis ends, Calabria says
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Curbside closings: Clients stay in their vehicles while notaries, title agents and attorneys ferry paperwork back and forth
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Impact of COVID-19 to Real Estate Showings in North America
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Coronavirus is clobbering the real estate industry. From a frenzy of flex-office layoffs to big deals falling apart, here's everything you need to know.
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Real-Estate Firms Expect Coronavirus-Driven Shifts Will Spur Warehouse Demand
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WeWork Employees Feel Abandoned And Angry As SoftBank Ditches Its $3 Billion Buyout Offer
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Here’s what unemployed Realtors should do next
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Oil/Gas:

Another Houston energy bankruptcy in dire straits as oil prices plunge
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Service companies take more hits as oil industry weaken
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Trump’s oil deal: The inside story of how the Saudi-Russia price war ended
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Trump’s Big Oil Deal Hinges on Weakest of Shale Going Bust
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The Sad Truth About The OPEC+ Production Cut • OPEC+ production cuts likely not enough to balance market or help US producers • OPEC+ Deal Is “Too Little And Too Late” • Saudi Arabia Is Planning Even More Oil Production Cuts
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OPEC Cuts Can't Save US Oil Jobs
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COVID-19 Outbreak Could Have Lasting Impact on U.S. Energy Sector, Analysts Project
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China’s Energy Imports Weaken as Virus Exacts Toll on Demand
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FTS International hires restructuring advisers • Frack Firm FTS International Hires Restructuring Advisers
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The largest oil output cut in history may still not be enough to prop up prices • Oil drops as supply concerns outweigh OPEC and allies’ historic production cut
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Texas and Oklahoma weigh production quotas for oil
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Chesapeake investors vote for reverse stock split to boost share prices • Pipeline operator sues Chesapeake Energy over payment dispute
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How Big Oil’s COVID-19 Near-Death Experience May Be A Preview Of The Industry’s Ultimate Demise
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Healthcare:

Los Angeles Surge Hospital opens for COVID-19 treatment and research • Shuttered St. Vincent Medical Center Reopens Today As Coronavirus Surge Hospital
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For West Virginia’s Hospitals, The Financial Crisis Came First
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Pandemic-Stricken Cities Have Empty Hospitals, But Reopening Them Is Difficult
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Coronavirus Strikes Rural America • ‘This Is Going to Kill Small-Town America’
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Global coronavirus cases approach two million, doubling in under two weeks
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Emergency room doctors face layoffs and pay cuts as coronavirus policies result in fewer patients
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Coronavirus has ‘reactivated’ in more than 100 South Koreans who recovered • WHO officials say it’s unclear if recovered coronavirus patients are immune to second infection
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Photos show bodies piled up and stored in vacant rooms at Detroit hospital
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American Health Care Is an Engine of Inequality
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‘It’s a Time Bomb’: 23 Die as Virus Hits Packed Homeless Shelters
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Why Do Italians Test Positive After Symptoms Are Long Gone?
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New York has 14 times as many coronavirus deaths as California
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Test big or stay home: Why the US needs millions of coronavirus tests per day • The case for ending the Covid-19 pandemic with mass testing
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Current coronavirus tally may represent only 6% of total infections: ‘Official case records are largely uninformative’
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Why we’re still relying on a century-old strategy to treat COVID-19
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NC woman did not leave her house for more than three weeks — but she still contracted COVID-19
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‘And then my patient begins to crash …’ A California nurse on the hardest shift in his career
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What Doctors on the Front Lines Wish They’d Known a Month Ago
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I’m an E.R. Doctor in New York. None of Us Will Ever Be the Same.
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The pace of new coronavirus cases in New Jersey is slowing as cases top 64,500
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Why New Orleans Pushed Ahead With Mardi Gras, Even as It Planned for Coronavirus
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South Dakota's governor resisted ordering people to stay home. Now it has one of the nation's largest coronavirus hot spots.
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San Francisco is being touted as a national model for stopping the coronavirus, but an expert says it might not stay that way in the next phase
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Scientists are collecting blood samples from 10,000 healthy people to figure out how much the coronavirus has really spread in the US
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Fox News Contributor Bill Bennett Compares Coronavirus to the Flu, Claims It’s ‘Not a Pandemic’
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First person in world to trial coronavirus vaccine describes risky shot
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Chloroquine study called off after irregular heartbeats detected in patients
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CIA issues warning on unproven treatment touted by Trump
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People Are Buying Human Breast Milk in Hopes It Will Protect Them From Coronavirus
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Apple and Google say their coronavirus-tracking tech will remain 'opt-in' only, and governments won't be allowed to require people to use it • Apple and Google have a clever way of encouraging people to install contact-tracing apps for COVID-19 • Moscow rolls out digital tracking to enforce lockdown. Critics dub it a ‘cyber Gulag’
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The UK will release an app to track people reporting COVID-19 symptoms and to alert people they had contact with
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Sailor Aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt Dies After Contracting Coronavirus
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World Health Organization prepares for cuts amid coronavirus criticism
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Autos:

Ford slumps 6% after saying coronavirus will weigh heavily on 1st quarter sales • Ford just said it expects to lose $600 million in Q1 as the coronavirus pandemic damages sales
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Ford Hints at Raising More Cash After Burning Through Billions • Ford Burning Through $1.2 Billion a Week
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Absolute Priority: Hilco Automotive Experts on Industry's Response to COVID-19
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Education:

Students are suing their colleges for coronavirus-related refunds
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Former ITT Students Launch RICO Suit Over 'Predatory' Loans
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Food/Beverage:

FoodFirst, parent company of Brio and Bravo, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy • FoodFirst Global To Kick Off Ch. 11 By Trying To Shed Leases
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With Restaurants Reeling, Produce Farmers Seek Reason to Harvest
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America could be 'perilously close' to meat shortages as slaughterhouses shut down and hundreds of workers test positive for COVID-19 • SD: 240 Infected at Smithfield Pork Plant
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White House May Cut Migrant Farm Pay
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Hotels:

Covid-19 crisis could wipe out these debt-laden Chicago hotels
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Amusement Parks:

Disney Parks May Have Major Changes After Coronavirus Lockdown
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Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory

Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings (14 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (22 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code (html) - Bankruptcy Code (pdf) • Prior BK Codes (pick year from list) - Bankruptcy Rules
(large downloads)

UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Case Studies
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Bankruptcy Jobs:

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Bankruptcy Statistics:

Weekly Bankruptcy Claims Trading Activity
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Trade Credit:

To Supply or Not Supply Goods: Credit Risks and Remedies in Uncertain Times
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D&O:

Thinking About Coronavirus Blame and the Possible Course of D&O Claims
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DIP Finance:

This DIP Loan Brought to You by Someone Who CARES!
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Bankruptcy Reform:

What Small Businesses Need to Know About Restructuring Under Subchapter v And the CARES Act
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Impact of the CARES Act on Subchapter V Reorganizations under the Bankruptcy Code
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Equity:

Equitable Arguments in Bankruptcy During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Jurisdiction:

FERC/Bankruptcy Court Concurrent Jurisdiction
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Standing:

Undescribed “Beneficial Interest” in Property Insufficient to Confer Article III Standing to Contest Foreclosure
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Debt Collection:

Pressure Mounts to Protect Virus Stimulus From Debt Collectors
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Massachusetts Attorney General Sets Her Sights on Debt Collectors in the Wake of COVID-19
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UST:

U.S. Trustee Program Acts Quickly to Protect Public Health and Ensure Effective Functioning of the Bankruptcy System During Covid-19 Emergency
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Arbitration:

Lawyer and startup resort to mass filings to fight company bans on class arbitration
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Bankruptcy Rules:

US Trustee Changes Bankruptcy Rules In COVID-19 Response
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Third Party Release:

Recent Delaware Decisions Show Divergent Views on Third-Party Release Procedures
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Miscellaneous:

Rochelle
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Metals:

Die-Casting Giant Opens Ch. 11 After COVID-19 Disruption • Pace Industries files Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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Telecoms:

OneWeb Bankruptcy Leaves Plans for Arctic Satellite Broadband In Limbo
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Newspapers:

Newspaper Revenue Drops As Local News Interest Rises Amid Coronavirus
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Aviation:

Mnuchin Rebuffs Airlines, Holds Firm on Repayment for Rescue
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Airline Stocks Fall As Industry Chafes At Repaying Coronavirus Aid, But One Analyst Remains Hopeful • US Airlines Discover They Will Have To Repay CARES Aid
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Buckle in for turbulence as Treasury, airlines hash out aid plan
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Airlines Eye Selling Miles For Cash
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The US government is emulating Warren Buffett in its airline bailouts, and could join him as a shareholder in the 'big 4' carriers
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Hawaiian Airlines' March Traffic Drops 41% on Coronavirus Woes
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Asia Pacific airlines report 93 per cent drop in traffic during April first week
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These Airlines Will Next Remove Seats To Carry Cargo And Medical Supplies On Passenger Aircraft Turned Into Freighters
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First came the 737 Max crisis, then coronavirus. Can David Calhoun save Boeing?
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Coronavirus lockdown: Airlines ready to resume flights from April 15, but await clarity from government
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American Airlines is extending status for frequent flyers until 2022 as carrier clings to loyal customers
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American Airlines repurposing first-class amenity kits for doctors, nurses
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Over a third of American Airlines workers to go on voluntary leave or retire
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Delta Airlines to change boarding procedure
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Longtime pilot details effects of coronavirus on airline industry
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SkyWest Suspends Dividends and Buybacks as It Seeks Federal Grants
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Heathrow passenger demand expected to plunge by 90% in April
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Coughs draw icy stares. Disinfecting wipes now essential. Airline workers share what it’s like on COVID-19′s front lines
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Israel Consumer Council launches class suit to force airlines to refund tickets
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Turkey's Pegasus Airlines extends flight cancellations until May 15
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Norwegian Air Plunges 60% on Plan to Convert Debt to Equity
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Mexican airlines running at 15% capacity; threat of bankruptcy looms
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As the coronavirus ravages airlines, Europe's ultra-cheap budget flights could disappear
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Japan’s airlines cut domestic flights after emergency declaration
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Virgin Australia enters trading halt for aid, restructuring talks amid virus crisis
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Virgin’s Richard Branson accused of double standards during coronavirus crisis
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Airlines ask leasing companies for rental holiday, but lessors play hard
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Use COVID-19 Crisis As Opportunity To Reform Aviation Sector, Says SpiceJet CMD
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Huge ticket refunds to push airline business on the brink
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What US Loses by Quitting Open Skies Treaty
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Cruise Lines:

Leaked memo reveals cruise industry giant MSC will not be paying some crew members stuck onboard its ships
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Student Debt:

CARES Act makes path for 401(k)-like student debt benefits: startup Goodly CEO
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Mail:

Trump's Grudge Against the Post Office
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Electricity:

Longview Power Files In BK DE - First Day Dec
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Sports:

XFL files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after suspending operations • Vince McMahon XFL files for bankruptcy, hopes to sell assets • XFL files for bankruptcy after shutting down operations because of the coronavirus • Inside the XFL bankruptcy filing: optimism and big bills • XFL files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, with an eye-opening list of creditors it owes • Brutal Details of XFL's Bankruptcy Filing Revealed • Vince McMahon’s XFL Files for Bankruptcy • XFL’s Bankruptcy Details Connections Between League & WWE • First Day Dec
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UK:

UK lockdown expected to continue despite ‘positive signs’ • UK likely to extend lockdown as death toll tops 11,000
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Two big UK care home groups report 521 coronavirus deaths
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One third of NHS staff and key workers tested in the UK have coronavirus
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EU:

Rethinking Priority: The Dawn of the Relative Priority Rule and a New ‘Best Interest of Creditors’ Test in the European Union
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Europe’s Plans for Going Back to Work Start to Take Shape
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The EU’s Big Pandemic Failure Isn't About Money
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PIIGS:

Italy’s Crisis Funds May Come Too Late for Desperate Firms
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Up to 65 Percent of Greek Hotels Face Bankruptcy, New Report Warns
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Africa:

Africa needs debt relief to fight COVID-19
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China:

Developing a pre-reorganization system in China
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China’s communist gov’t is actively censoring coronavirus info, scrubbed academic research
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Powerful in US Were Wrong About China
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Beijing Turns into Virtual Fortress Over Virus
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Austria:

Austria Tests Easing Lockdown With Some Stores Reopening Tuesday
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MENA:

UAE's NMC Health Forms New Board to Implement Changes
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Saudi Arabia Races To Contain Epidemic In Islam’s Holiest City
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Russia:

The Russian government introduces a moratorium on bankruptcy
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Putin’s Bleak Covid-19 Admission: ‘We Don’t Have Much to Brag About’ • Russia’s coronavirus cases expected to soar
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As Pandemic Grips Russia, an Age-Old Bane Returns: Drinking
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France:

Contrite Macron extends French lockdown until May 11
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France’s Extended Lockdown Pushes Economy Into Deeper Recession • French economy to contract 8% this year as lockdown extended: minister
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Germany:

Germany is considering steps to return to a ‘new normal,’ health minister says
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Germany’s New Coronavirus Cases Fall for the Fifth Day
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India:

India Extends World’s Largest Lockdown till May 3rd
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Australia:

Australia Business Confidence Plummets to Lowest Level on Record
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Australia ‘Many Weeks Away’ From Relaxing Virus Restrictions
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Japan:

Japan’s Abe Sees Support Rate Slip While Virus Cases Rise
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