Law:

What’s A Firm Breakup Without A Few Blackmail Allegations?
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Bye, Bye, 2019, And Don’t Let the Door Hit You On The Way Out
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Lowenstein Sandler Names Two New Bankruptcy Partners
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Faegre Baker Sued by Crypto Fund Manager
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Nike Tries to Stop Avenatti's Witnesses
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Wachtell Clinches Top Spot as 2019 Global M&A Adviser
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The law firms with the best perks 2020
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Paul Weiss Silent Amid Client's Escape From Japan to Lebanon
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Writing emails stressing you out? Here are 3 steps for closing any email effectively
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Online courts, the future of justice and being bold in 2020
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An in-depth analysis of the 2019 law school admissions & entering class data
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Fall 2020 Law School Applicants Down 1%, But Surge 11% In The Highest LSAT Bands (165+) As 2019 Draws To A Close
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How did law schools survive a decade of "statistically zero jobs" for their graduates?
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Navy SEAL Gallagher launches lifestyle brand after war crime acquittal
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Woman Charged In New Year's Day Attack On NYC Hasidic Man • Two Women Allegedly Attacked Jewish Man in Brooklyn
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New Year's Day Gun Violence Claims 177 Lives as 2020 Begins
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Trump Winery Fires Their Illegal Employees
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Congressional Republicans sign brief asking Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade
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Judge rules Texas baby can be taken off life support against family's wishes
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Alex Jones And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year
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How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment
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Maryland governor issues consent for refugee admissions in response to Trump order
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White Nationalist Who Headlined Charlottesville Rally is Arrested on Domestic Violence Charges
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‘Affluenza Teen’ Ethan Couch Arrested on Probation Violation
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Former Sequoia Partner Wins Extortion Suit Against Ex-Mistress
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NYPD Officer Who Was Sentenced in Drunk, Racist Break-In Has Quit
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Wanted: ‘Nanny’ to cook and clean for first year law student
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Judges:

BK SD FL: Courthouse Beacon Newsletter - December 2019
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Chemerinsky: It’s likely to be an amazing year in the Supreme Court
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Chief Justice Roberts’s Warning Against Fake News Is A 2020 Elections Subtweet • Chief Justice Roberts: Judges Are a Check Against 'False Information' • The chief justice’s 2019 year-end report: The federal judiciary and civic education • Emerging from the shadows: the U.S. chief justice who will preside over Trump's trial
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More Than 200 GOP Lawmakers Tell SCOTUS: Roe v. Wade Should Be ‘Reconsidered’ and ‘If Appropriate, Overruled’
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Lawyer Ejected From 2nd Circuit Arguments Petitions for En Banc Rehearing
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Trump judicial adviser’s ‘dark money’ network hides Supreme Court spending
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Wall Street:

Dow futures drop after US air strike kills Iran’s top military leader
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Stocks ring in New Year positively
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Layoffs:

December Job Cuts Lowest Since July 2018, YTD Up 10% on Retail, Industrial, Auto, Tech - Cuts Attributable To Bankruptcies Highest Since 2005
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AT&T is cutting jobs
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141 to lose jobs as result of Semco closure in Merrill
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2019 was one of the decade's worst years for job cuts in the US
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Glass Fabricator Northwestern Industries Slashes More than 130 Jobs
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SunPower to Cut 145-160
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Politics:

Explosive new documents reveal the lengths to which the Justice Department went to conceal the Pentagon's concerns about Trump's Ukraine aid freeze • Unredacted emails show Pentagon official worried about legality of Ukraine aid freeze • White House official said aide hold came from Trump • DOJ Repeatedly Redacted Emails Expressing Concern That Trump Hold on Ukraine Aid Broke the Law • •Ten senators to watch on impeachment trial • How the impasse over a Senate impeachment trial could end • Schumer on Trump Aid Scheme Emails • Hawley says he will introduce motion to dismiss impeachment case
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Christianity Today editor "surprised by the ethical naïveté" of Trump supporters
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Trump Covered Up DOJ Scheme Against CNN
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Foreign Diplomats Brace for Trump Win
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2020 candidates' Q4 fundraising hauls
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Mike Bloomberg declines to file for Nevada caucuses
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2020 predictions: Trump will lose — if not in the Senate, then with the voters
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Karl Rove: GOP Loses If It Follows Trump
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A deceptively edited video of Joe Biden illustrates a big problem in 2020 • Behind other candidates in fourth-quarter tallies
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Ron Howard unloads on Trump: 'Self-serving, dishonest, morally bankrupt ego maniac'
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Donald Trump Wrongly Told Troops They Have 'All Brand New' Aircraft in Christmas Call
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Florida Poised to Surpass New York in Congressional Seats
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Democrat Marianne Williamson lays off campaign staff nationally, including NH • Marianne Williamson stays in presidential race after firing her entire 2020 campaign staff
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Sanders bashes Biden's record: "It’s just a lot of baggage"
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Trump doubled his tweets in 2019
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Backlog of toxic Superfund cleanups grows under Trump
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'What the hell were you thinking?': Trump berated White House staff for not telling him Putin was trying to call him
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Climate:

2019 was likely the second-hottest year in recorded history
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Why it’s so damn hot in Australia • Photos: What Australia’s devastating fires look like on the ground • Some flee, others restock before Australian wildfires worsen • Australians heckle prime minister after he curtails visit to families devastated by wildfires • This weekend may bring Australia its most dangerous fire weather conditions yet • Australia Wildfire Map Update • Australian Navy Begins Mass Evacuations
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Australian Wildfires Are Impacting Close to Half a Billion Mammals, Birds and Reptiles: Report
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Wave of Blazes Strains Firefighting Network Across Globe
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The signal of human-caused climate change has emerged in every day weather, study finds
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Bezos Threat: Don't Talk Of Climate Change
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Publishing:

Piecemeal sell-off of bankrupt Johnson Publishing Co. continues with art auction • Johnson Publishing art auction marks final chapter for Chicago-based African American media empire
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Taxis:

Thousands Of Rideshare Drivers In US Reportedly Not Getting Paid
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Trucking:

GDS Express Files For Bankruptcy After Abrupt Pre-Christmas Shutdown
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Mass Torts:

As window for sex-abuse lawsuits opens, alleged victims begin filing against Catholic Church and Boy Scouts
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Biofuels:

Bunge sells stake in U.S. ethanol plant as biofuels industry struggles
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Fraud:

December 2019 Ponzi Scheme Roundup
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Bankrupt Auditing Firm Skirts Suit Over Decade-Old Fraud
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Lori Loughlin Learning Prison Lingo
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Insider-Trading Prosecutions Get Easier With Court Ruling
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Swiss Firm in Panama Papers Charged in Transatlantic Stock Scam
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Economy:

Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims at 222,000 • U.S. jobless claims drop to four-week low in tight labor market
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Midwestern manufacturing improved in December but is still contracting
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Visualizing 90 Years of U.S. Economic Growth, in One Chart
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U.S. consumer comfort rises to five-month high on economic views
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Corporate Debt Issuers To Kick Off Sales With Up To $35 Billion
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S&P Takes Most Bearish Stance on U.S. Corporate Debt Since 2009
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Proportions of U.S. Employees in the Private Service Sector and Government Since 1939 • Proportions of U.S. Employees in Construction, Mining and Logging and Manufacturing Since 1939
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Somebody Stopped Paying Their Social Security Taxes Today
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The Best and Worst Performing Sectors in 2019
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Trump's China Agreement is a Fake Deal
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Bill Gates called for higher taxes on the wealthy in a New Year's Eve blog post
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The decade of 'millennials killing' things has come to an end, but it wasn't the generation's fault in the first place
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Seattle passed a $15 minimum wage law in 2014. Here's how it's turned out so far
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Minimum wage increases fueling faster wage growth for those at the bottom
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Recent surveys show sharp decline in retirement wealth for typical household
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The 2010s saw a fall in the number of American kids
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Growth and Decline: Visualizing U.S. Population Change by County
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Grim repo: how the Fed plans to return crucial market to normal
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Caregiving, labor, job search, and leisure: The time use of prime-age adults
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Prediction Consensus: What the Experts See Coming in 2020
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Trump's Tax Cut Has Failed Most Of Us
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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:

Mortgage rates ease heading into 2020
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Competition for housing is so high, the spring market is starting now
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Americans are cashing-out home equity with higher rates
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Fraud risk on purchase mortgages climbs for the first time since March
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Freddie Mac: Mortgage rates start 2020 well below last year's average
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Where will the hottest housing markets be in 2020? Go south
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America’s love affair with the single-family house is slowly cooling
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The conundrum affordable housing poses for the nation
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FHA, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac are all now backing larger loans
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Municipalities:

Illinois Spent the Last Decade Losing Population and Learning Nothing
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People couldn’t wait to leave this state in 2019
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Americans are Flocking to Texas
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Americans Are Flocking to Idaho
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Nine States Face Economic Contraction, Most Since 2009 Crisis
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Pete’s Puerto Rico Problem
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The Puerto Rican Flag’s Evolving Colors Say a Lot About the Island’s Relationship With Its Colonial Rulers
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Puerto Rico's Population Grows For First Time In 15 Years
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Stay and mediation on Puerto Rico’s central debt extended
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Oil/Gas:

A Sabine Alternative: Colorado Bankruptcy Court Holds Midstream Gathering Agreement Constitutes Covenant Running with the Land that Cannot be Rejected
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The energy sector may see bankruptcies, restructuring: Investor
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The decade's biggest unexpected boom
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Denmark generated almost half of its electricity from wind in 2019
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Alta Mesa gets $310M bankruptcy offer
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Oil prices surge as US confirms that Iran’s top commander was killed in airstrike • Oil prices ‘could make a run at $80’ if US-Iran conflict intensifies, analysts say • Why oil could hit $80 even without a ‘full-blown’ U.S.-Iran war
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E-Cigarettes:

Trump administration imposed ban on some, but not all, vaping flavors in retreat on earlier plan
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Personal Finance:

These 2 charts show how millennials and Gen Zers need completely different things to love their jobs
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Pharma:

Antibiotics Developer Plans Ch. 11 Sale To Escape $213M Debt
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Drug price hikes are back for 2020
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Drug Costs Sky High in America Due to Greed
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Melinta files for bankruptcy in another dark day for antibiotics
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True Cause of America's Opioid Crisis
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Healthcare:

Americore Health Files for Bankruptcy
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With no patients to see, Ellwood City hospital parent files for bankruptcy
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Payroll delayed for St. Alexius Hospital employees following bankruptcy filing
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Hospital group mum as members pursue patients with lawsuits and debt collectors
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Study: Hospital mergers don't improve quality of care
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U-Haul to stop hiring smokers
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The Family Wanted a Do Not Resuscitate Order. The Doctors Didn’t.
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Church pays off $1.6M in medical debt
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Utilities:

Jurisdiction over Rejection of Power Purchase Agreements—Confusion Continues
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The Sixth Circuit Sets Standard on Power Struggle at Play in Bankruptcy Proceedings Between a Federal Agency and its Federally Endorsed Contracts and the Bankruptcy Court
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PG&E rate case compromise cuts $1.1B proposal to $575M for wildfire mitigation
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Personal Finance:

Returning Christmas presents? Do it before these deadlines at Apple, Amazon and Walmart
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3 Lies Financial Advisors Tell
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Food/Beverage:

Restaurant Performance Index rose to an 8-month high
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Food prices for dining out vs. staying home
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Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group creditors to suffer 'significant shortfall'
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Student Debt:

Ways You Can Actually Get Your Student Loans Forgiven Today
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Student loan debt, the housing market and a plan that could get us out of this mess
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Hotels:

Debt-ridden Doral Arrowwood resort could be shut down by Jan. 12
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Guns:

Firearms manufacturer Sharps Rifle Company files for bankruptcy
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Aviation:

2019 Wasn’t Boeing’s Worst Year. Not Even Close.
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Pensions:

Cash-Strapped Publisher McClatchy Skips Payment to Pensioners
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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 (4 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
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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:

2019 Busiest Year For Ch. 11s Since 2015
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Weekly Bankruptcy Claims Trading Activity
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SCOTUS:

Supreme Court Set to Hear Passive Stay Violation Case
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Automatic Stay:

Extending the Stay to Third Parties: Sometimes a Bankruptcy Court Will Intercede
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Miscellaneous:

R&I Alert
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2019 Bankruptcy Year in Review: What We Have Seen and What to Expect in 2020
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Happy New Year: The Best of 2015-2019
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Priority Claims:

Distinguishing Domestic Support Obligations from Property Settlement Debts: Comparative Opinions
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Trustees:

Bankruptcy Courts Don’t Need to Hold an Evidentiary Hearing in Order to Appoint a Chapter 11 Trustee
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Ch. 13 Trustee: Politics For Dummies, 3rd Edition
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Classification:

Claim Treatment or New Investment?
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Avoidance Actions:

Fifth Circuit Restricts Double Recovery in Fraudulent Transfer Action
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Professional Compensation:

Creditors may be losing out on millions in compensation nationwide as law firms turn their accounting departments into "profit centers
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Religion:

The Rochester diocese's unique case
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Abuse Survivors Getting Closer to Compensation from New Ulm Diocese • Clergy abuse victims set to vote on settlement
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Lawsuits pour in as new California law opens window for bringing old child sex abuse claims
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Autos:

Top 10 states for 30-day delinquency in Q3
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Ride-sharing of the future
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Education:

Did Wealthy Parents Use Magnet Schools to Game College Admissions?
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Moody’s Upgrades American Colleges
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Newspapers:

McClatchy freezes some pension benefits
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Retailing:

Bite the dust Another Day: How Some Failed or Bankrupt Retailers Are Coming After to Life
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Toms Shoes creditors take ownership of the company
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UPS expects a record-breaking 2 million package returns today, and it reveals a dark truth about holiday shopping
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Is This The Beginning Of Amazon’s Meltdown?
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What to expect in 2020 — what not to expect
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Nearly half of consumers would pay more for a better shopping experience
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Millennials support socialism because they want to make America great — but for everyone
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Bankruptcies hit the retail sector hard in 2019
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It's A Sad Day For My Hometown Mall
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Struggling Fairway Market again prepares bankruptcy filing
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My 2019 Retail Predictions: How’d I Do?
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Is The Sears Death Watch Entering Its Final Stages?
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UK:

Brexit Fears Are Driving Migrants To Make Dangerous Journeys To Britain Before Its Borders 'Close'
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Broke Katie Price begs fans to fork out £80 to 'check out her banter' at makeup masterclass
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Year-End Fall In Insolvency Risk For Majority Of North East Industry Sectors
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Lendy administration “more complex than first realized” as costs hit £1.7m
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PIIGS:

Bankrupt Sean Dunne pays $9,330 US court fine to progress appeal
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Canada:

More Canadians are filing for insolvency than we’ve seen since the financial crisis. What’s going on?
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Mounting debt levels cast a long shadow
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MENA:

After violent protests, Pentagon says that anyone who tries to overrun the US embassy in Baghdad will 'run into a buzzsaw' • The Damage to the US Embassy in Iraq • Defense secretary says Iran and its proxies may be planning fresh attacks on U.S. personnel in Iraq • Attack on US Embassy exposes widening US-Iraq divide on Iran • First wave of 750 US paratroopers leaves for the Middle East in response to attack • Iranian general warns he is not afraid of war • Attack on U.S. Embassy in Baghdad underscores America’s polarization — and peril • U.S. Strike Kills One of Iran’s Most Powerful Military Leaders • Killing Suleimani Changes the Game in the Middle East • Iran vows to retaliate over the killing of its top military commander • US Braces for Iran's Retaliation • Grisly New Chapter in Middle East Opened • Fears of War Rise After US Kills Suleimani • ‘Dangerous escalation’: World reacts to US killing of Qasem Soleimani • US Embassy urges Americans to flee Iraq ‘immediately’ following Soleimani killing • Op-Ed: America just took out a man many consider the world’s no. 1 bad guy • Republicans celebrate death of Qasem Soleimani • Iran has vowed revenge on the US after Trump's airstrike killed its top military commander. Here's how it could do it •Trump tweets predicting Obama would start a war with Iran to get re-elected are coming back to haunt him
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The saga of Iraq's debts
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Japan:

Carlos Ghosn’s American Lawyers Suddenly at a Loss for Words After an Escape for the Ages • Former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn somehow fled Japan under intense surveillance. Here are all the theories surrounding his escape, from paid-off airport employees to musical instrument cases •A timeline of how Carlos Ghosn fled 24/7 surveillance in Japan, escaped on a private jet, and made it to Lebanon • Turkey detains 4 pilots suspected of helping Carlos Ghosn flee Japan • Carlos Ghosn: Music Lover • Carlos Ghosn Joins Ranks of Big-Time White-Collar Fugitives • Why Carlos Ghosn may escape extradition from Lebanon • Ghosn Might Not be That Safe in Lebanon • Escape from Japan: A TV Movie? • Carlos Ghosn: Interpol red notice out for ex-Nissan boss • Prior To Carlos Ghosn’s Daring Escape, His Wife Talked Of Japan’s ‘Fake Democracy’ • Carlos Ghosn Has Tales to Tell and Scores to Settle • Turkish company says jets used illegally in Ghosn escape • What's known and not known about Ghosn's case after escape • Carlos Ghosn was reportedly interested in making a Hollywood movie about his life • Carlos Ghosn's escape ramps up pressure on foreign suspects as well as Japanese justice system • Ghosn Getaway Jet’s Other Job: Ferrying Venezuelan Gold
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India:

Jet Airways lenders give time till January 15 for submission of EoIs
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Bad loan provisioning may swell by Rs 30,000 crore in Q3
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Will the bankruptcy code be more effective?
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Suzlon to Offer India Banks 68% Haircut on Debt Recast Deal
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Netherlands:

Hudson’s Bye: Canadian group’s Dutch adventure ends in bankruptcy
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Mexico:

U.S. consulate warns employees as gun battles rock Mexican border city
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France:

France protests: Longest strike in decades stuck in deadlock
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Argentina:

Argentina issues Treasury Bills, subscribed by the Central bank, to pay creditors • Argentina's Fernandez says social pact sends 'strong message' to IMF, creditors
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China:

China's Largest Potash Producer Fails in Fifth Bid to Raise Funds
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