Archive for March, 2010

Bankruptcy Laws, Bankruptcy Law - Lawyers have billed Tribune Co. $138M since it filed - Chicago Tribune

Monday, March 29th, 2010

Lawyers have billed Tribune Co. $138M since it filed - Chicago Tribune
filed for bankruptcy, law firms and other professionals have billed the media conglomerate $138 million, or about one-quarter of the company’s cash flow last year, an analysis of court documents shows. Sidley’s take alone is pushing $25 million, and

University of Chicago Law School - Chicago Tribune
Kevin Carey isn’t likely to win any awards for reining in runaway bankruptcy fees. But at least he took a stab at it. Carey was the U.S. bankruptcy judge in Delaware who last year warned lawyers in the Tribune Co. case that they had better think

Nortel Settlement to Pay Benefits Thrown Out by Judge - Bloomberg
they urged the judge to remove the clause that allowed for the renegotiation of benefits in the event the law was changed. Canada’s opposition parties have introduced proposals to change the bankruptcy law so former employees of companies that

Lawyers have billed Tribune Co. $138M since it filed - Chicago Tribune
filed for bankruptcy, law firms and other professionals have billed the media conglomerate $138 million, or about one-quarter of the company’s cash flow last year, an analysis of court documents shows. Sidley’s take alone is pushing $25 million, and

University of Chicago Law School - Chicago Tribune
Kevin Carey isn’t likely to win any awards for reining in runaway bankruptcy fees. But at least he took a stab at it. Carey was the U.S. bankruptcy judge in Delaware who last year warned lawyers in the Tribune Co. case that they had better think

Nortel Settlement to Pay Benefits Thrown Out by Judge - Bloomberg
they urged the judge to remove the clause that allowed for the renegotiation of benefits in the event the law was changed. Canada’s opposition parties have introduced proposals to change the bankruptcy law so former employees of companies that

Bankruptcy Laws, Bankruptcy Law - Greece and the Euro: A trial separation? - Enter Stage Right

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Greece and the Euro: A trial separation? - Enter Stage Right
The comparisons to early 2008 invite themselves. The government of Greece is in the midst of a debt crisis, in part prompted by enforcement laxity of the 3% debt-to-GDP limit; it seems to have bailout or default as the only ready solutions. Either

The almanac - United Press International
Today is Sunday, Feb. 28, the 59th day of 2010 with 306 to follow. The moon is full. The morning stars are Mercury and Neptune and the evening stars are Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus and Uranus. Those born on this day are under the sign of Pisces

Priest who abused boys casts shadow in Northwest - Seattle Times
They are among 500 people with open claims of abuse against the region’s Portland-based Jesuits, who sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection a year Corkery jumped up, according to a witness account in court papers, and said, “No, you can’t do

California: Heat, DLSE - Migration News
The Board overseeing Cal/OSHA considered amendments to the state’s Heat Illness Prevention regulations, adopted in 2005 and enforces state minimum wage, child labor, and similar labor standards laws. The California Rural Legal Assistance

Stimulus was necessary - Bismarck Tribune
I think that we can blame someone else for the problems that these United States are experiencing right now. It is easier to blame others. Face it, one of the reasons we are having problems is because we, as a people, over spend our means. Whether

Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling could see new trial - Stockhouse
HOUSTON - It’s a 28-word word law that federal prosecutors have used for more than two decades to send high-profile public officials and corporate executives, including former Enron Corp. CEO Jeff Skilling, to prison. But the law’s future could be in

Nite Bite: Welcoming Crown Nightclub - Las Vegas Weekly
Crown’s owner and operator Darin Feinstein purchased LA’s Viper Room from actor/club-owner Johnny Feinstein himself has degrees in accounting and law, and has practiced in the state of California. Once Feinstein has re-outfitted the room with

The New Republic: UnHAMPering The Housing Crisis - NPR News
President Franklin D. Roosevelt gives his fourth Inaugural speech January 20, 1945 outside the south portico of the White House in Washington D.C. His HOLC plan to solve the housing crisis in 1933 may work today. National Archive/Getty Images

CDNwinsGOLD!Whewho!The International Forecaster:Big Players Get Out Of - Stockhouse
Average quality rating by the Stockhouse community. From a different perspective as big players get into gold or maybe insiders of their own companies get into gold, their own shares ..PS. Commodities up so far in Asia, copper 3.44 a lb

Your Views - 03/01 - Riverside Press Enterprise
The data you provided showing little difference between traffic accident rates for states with or without cell phone laws assumes that the existing laws are being enforced. Based on my admittedly un-scientific observations, the existing law is

Greece and the Euro: A trial separation? - Enter Stage Right
The comparisons to early 2008 invite themselves. The government of Greece is in the midst of a debt crisis, in part prompted by enforcement laxity of the 3% debt-to-GDP limit; it seems to have bailout or default as the only ready solutions. Either

The almanac - United Press International
Today is Sunday, Feb. 28, the 59th day of 2010 with 306 to follow. The moon is full. The morning stars are Mercury and Neptune and the evening stars are Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus and Uranus. Those born on this day are under the sign of Pisces

Priest who abused boys casts shadow in Northwest - Seattle Times
They are among 500 people with open claims of abuse against the region’s Portland-based Jesuits, who sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection a year Corkery jumped up, according to a witness account in court papers, and said, “No, you can’t do

California: Heat, DLSE - Migration News
The Board overseeing Cal/OSHA considered amendments to the state’s Heat Illness Prevention regulations, adopted in 2005 and enforces state minimum wage, child labor, and similar labor standards laws. The California Rural Legal Assistance

Stimulus was necessary - Bismarck Tribune
I think that we can blame someone else for the problems that these United States are experiencing right now. It is easier to blame others. Face it, one of the reasons we are having problems is because we, as a people, over spend our means. Whether

Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling could see new trial - Stockhouse
HOUSTON - It’s a 28-word word law that federal prosecutors have used for more than two decades to send high-profile public officials and corporate executives, including former Enron Corp. CEO Jeff Skilling, to prison. But the law’s future could be in

Nite Bite: Welcoming Crown Nightclub - Las Vegas Weekly
Crown’s owner and operator Darin Feinstein purchased LA’s Viper Room from actor/club-owner Johnny Feinstein himself has degrees in accounting and law, and has practiced in the state of California. Once Feinstein has re-outfitted the room with

The New Republic: UnHAMPering The Housing Crisis - NPR News
President Franklin D. Roosevelt gives his fourth Inaugural speech January 20, 1945 outside the south portico of the White House in Washington D.C. His HOLC plan to solve the housing crisis in 1933 may work today. National Archive/Getty Images

CDNwinsGOLD!Whewho!The International Forecaster:Big Players Get Out Of - Stockhouse
Average quality rating by the Stockhouse community. From a different perspective as big players get into gold or maybe insiders of their own companies get into gold, their own shares ..PS. Commodities up so far in Asia, copper 3.44 a lb

Your Views - 03/01 - Riverside Press Enterprise
The data you provided showing little difference between traffic accident rates for states with or without cell phone laws assumes that the existing laws are being enforced. Based on my admittedly un-scientific observations, the existing law is