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Nov. 29 (Bloomberg Law) -- The decision sending the Patriot Coal Corp. reorganization to St. Louis will focus debate on the near impossibility of convincing a judge in New York or Delaware to send a bankruptcy somewhere else,...more
Marginal Successes, Revised Expectations, Broken Promises – A Presidency in Review Part 3: No New Bankruptcy Protections for Workers and Retirees While on the campaign trail, presidential candidate Barack Obama promised...more
Governor Corbett last week signed SB 1321, which requires that Act 111 interest arbitration awards comply with a municipality’s Financial Recovery Plan under the Municipalities Financial Recovery Act (Act 47). The law becomes...more
On the ongoing debate in Congress regarding legislation to allow states to seek federal bankruptcy protection, the governors of the respective states have got this to say – “We don’t want any of it” (paraphrase mine). For...more
Allowing states to file for bankruptcy is not going to cure all the public pension problems, according to one expert. Professor Joshua Rauh of Northwestern University told a congressional hearing this recently. However,...more
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