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Bankruptcy Research Finds Bankruptcy Law Reform Has Hurt the Poor Most (Newswise) A new study co-authored by University of Law professor Katherine Porter found that federal bankruptcy reforms that took effect in 2005 have not protected low-income people nor forced well-off people to pay their debts, as the law intended. us.rd.yahoo.com
Chrysler Assessed, Dropped Bankruptcy Before Aid Push (Update2) (Bloomberg) Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp. , Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC's chief executive officers told Congress they studied bankruptcy before dismissing the idea as unworkable and asking the U.S. government for money to survive. us.rd.yahoo.com
Chrysler Assessed, Dropped Bankruptcy Before Aid Push (Update1) (Bloomberg) Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Chrysler LLC Chief Executive Officer Robert Nardelli told Congress his automaker studied a prearranged bankruptcy before dismissing the idea as unworkable and approaching the U.S. government for money to survive. us.rd.yahoo.com
Chrysler Considered, Abandoned, Bankruptcy Before Seeking Aid (Bloomberg) Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Chrysler LLC Chief Executive Officer Robert Nardelli said his company studied a prearranged bankruptcy before dismissing the idea as unworkable and approaching the U.S. government for money to survive. us.rd.yahoo.com
FHA-Backed Loans: The New Subprime (BusinessWeek) us.rd.yahoo.com
‘Smiling Bob’ to be sold for $2.75m (Nutraingredients.com) Bankruptcy trustee, Richard Nelson, said Berkeley had signed an asset purchase agreement with the Ohio-based buyer that included all of Berkeley’s herbal supplements brands including Enzyte, the product that brought Smiling Bob to the attentions of late night television audiences across America. us.rd.yahoo.com
Senator warns of 'cascade' in General Motors bankruptcy (El Paso Times) WASHINGTON -- A Democratic Congress, unwilling or unable to approve a $25 billion bailout for Detroit's Big Three, appears ready to punt the automakers' fate to a lame-duck Republican president. us.rd.yahoo.com
Taft Ranked #139 in The National Law Journal 250 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP ranked #139 in number of attorneys, with 337, in the recently-released list of The National Law Journal 250 for 2008. The National Law Journal represents an annual survey of the nation's largest law firms. us.rd.yahoo.com
Treasury Denounced Over Bailout (New York Times) The Treasury secretary, Henry M. Paulson Jr., on Tuesday rejected pleas to use money from the $700 billion bailout program to help homeowners avoid foreclosure or to stave off bankruptcy by Detroit’s Big Three automakers, The New York Times’s Edmund L. Andrews reported. us.rd.yahoo.com
UK Law's Passage Arouses Dispute Over Green Energy (Planet Ark) LONDON - A move approved by Britain's lower house, to expand a price support plan for households making green energy to larger renewables projects, could undermine a vital existing scheme, big energy producers said. us.rd.yahoo.com
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