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Byline: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul announced Monday that the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) is not filing an appeal of the decision by the United [...]

Another regional bank in America teetered on the brink of collapse. https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/article57089-prod.ece , based in San Francisco, said it was 'pursuing strategic options' after revealing that customers withdrew some $100bn [...]

Did he mention he was sorry? The game is up for Sam Bankman-Fried O NLY A MONTH has elapsed since Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX, a crypto exchange, placed [...]

In a shock move, Disney ousted Bob Chapek as chief executive after just 33 months in the job, and brought back Bob Iger, the previous CEO, to replace him. Senior [...]

Judge Michael Kaplan of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New Jersey ruled that pausing lawsuits filed by New Mexico and Mississippi's attorneys general will allow Johnson & Johnson time to [...]

3M's plan to use controversial bankruptcy rules to shield itself from some 230,000 lawsuits over military earplugs looked like a relatively simple fix to a long-simmering problem that could cost [...]

A U.S. bankruptcy judge has refused to block more than 230,000 lawsuits accusing 3M of selling allegedly defective earplugs to the U.S. military from moving forward, ruling that the bankruptcy [...]

Businesses in the construction sector have been especially vulnerable to insolvency during the pandemic due to lockdown restrictions delaying projects, supply chain issues limiting materials and soaring costs. NMCN was [...]

Byline: Dustin Walsh A trustee for the federal bankruptcy court is attempting to claw back more than $105 million from the family behind shuttered metro Detroit furniture empire Art Van [...]

How asbestos saved the Sackler family from bankruptcy A LONG LEGAL chapter in America's opioid epidemic, which continues to kill tens of thousands of people a year, at last came [...]

The 'grave misconduct' of Big Four accounting firm KPMG in advising a recent private equity sale has prompted a parliamentary lobby group made up of MPs and peers to reiterate [...]

An Arkansas County woman says she made a shocking discovery in 2016. Her boyfriend at the time shared illicit photos and videos of her--that she didn't know he had taken--with [...]

Duggars' Case Continued You may have seen last week that a federal jury in Fayetteville convicted former reality TV star Josh Duggar of two counts related to downloading and possessing [...]

After the Westfield financial services firm Banc-Serv Partners LLC imploded in 2018, founder Kerri Agee of Noblesville found herself at the center of a tangled web of criminal, civil and [...]

SOUTH Mississippi officials hesitant to add overflow beds As Mississippi hospitals' intensive-care units fill up, state health officials are considering opening pop-up facilities to provide more beds for coronavirus patients. [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho A subsidiary of a Detroit bankruptcy creditor has backed down from a lawsuit it filed in federal court earlier this month asking for more time on an [...]

July 1,1933 Ulysses was first released in France in 1922, but 11 years later, Modern Library's Bennett Cerf was still fighting to get the classic published in the U.S.; a [...]

Byline: Steve Farrell Scotland's insolvency service is investigating whether a businessman linked to defunct chain Bargain World breached the terms of an undischarged bankruptcy. Calum Melville is a former oil [...]

A U.S. bankruptcy court rejected SHOPKO's plan to settle its estate. The judge ruled against the plan due to it barring creditors from pursuing legal claims against Shopko executives, directors [...]

Meal delivery startup MUNCHERY filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, after shutting down operations in January. In addition to $28.5 million secured debt to lenders, the company owes $6 million [...]

Byline: David Muller A judge's ruling that Ford Motor Credit Co. can reclaim vehicles worth up to $90 million from bankrupt Texas dealership group Reagor Dykes likely will torpedo the [...]

Relativity Media's embattled mogul speaks out for the first time since his company filed a historic bankruptcy, as the helicopter-flying, high-living studio chief claims he's the victim of an elaborate [...]

New Jersey-based JAMES CANDY CO. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The maker of Fralinger's Salt Water Taffy and Bayard's Chocolates has 11 retail outlets in the mid-Atlantic region and [...]

Byline: Larry P. Vellequette In the 1990s through mid-2000s, Denny Hecker jetted around the country almost daily on one of 14 private planes he owned over those years, commanding an [...]