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Latest News in Bankruptcy

  • May 18, 2026

    Nikola Founder Accused Of Dodging $2.5M Settlement Share

    Nikola Corp. founder Trevor Milton "has not paid a dime" of his $2.5 million share of an eight-figure settlement resolving shareholder litigation over a fraud-shadowed special purpose acquisition company merger, the bankrupt electric vehicle company's trustee claims, asking the Delaware Chancery Court to hold the billionaire in contempt.

  • May 18, 2026

    Nielsen Appeal Tests Antitrust Limits Of Pricing And Bundling

    In Cumulus v. Nielsen, the Second Circuit is considering a structural pattern in which a monopolist exploits upstream market power to foreclose downstream competition, which could potentially offer broad insight into how courts will assess exclusionary bundling and pricing defenses under antitrust law, says Luke Hasskamp at Bona Law.

  • May 18, 2026

    Freight Co. Gets Ch. 11 Plan OK After Settling Debt Deal Suit

    Freight services company STG on Monday secured a New Jersey bankruptcy judge's approval of its Chapter 11 plan, which calls for letting the debtor cut more than $1 billion in liabilities, weeks after the debtor resolved major litigation launched by its lenders.

  • May 18, 2026

    Ch. 11 Ruling Raises Bar For Avoiding Default Interest

    Following a New York bankruptcy court's recent decision in 33 Mako, solvent debtors may find it significantly harder to avoid paying contractual default interest to oversecured lenders under Section 506(b) of the Bankruptcy Code, say attorneys at Benesch.

  • May 18, 2026

    Return's Fraud Voids Assessment Deadline, IRS Tells Justices

    The IRS can slap a tax assessment against a taxpayer without time constraints when a return is fraudulent, even if a third-party preparer was the scammer, the agency told the U.S. Supreme Court in opposing a woman's petition for relief from what she alleges was her accountant's deception.

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