S. Todd Brown, a law professor at the University at Buffalo who specializes in bankruptcy law, said that the process can help organizations treat creditors, including survivors of abuse, more fairly.

A small group of sexual abuse survivors appealed, arguing that the Boy Scouts of America’s (BSA) plan of reorganization ...

Hooters of America LLC reached a $4.5 million global settlement with creditors that weren’t expected to recover anything ...

The Boy Scouts of America will begin to distribute compensation to thousands of victims of sexual abuse after emerging from bankruptcy Wednesday, the organization announced. As part of a ...

A government waiver of sovereign immunity under the Bankruptcy Code does not apply to a state-law claim setting aside tax ...

In September, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Laurie Selber Silverstein approved a $2.46 billion reorganization plan that would allow the Irving, Texas-based Boy Scouts of America to continue operating ...

Melissa B. Jacoby, a law professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of “Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal,” said the Johnson ...

23andMe’s bankruptcy could put millions of Americans’ genomic profiles at risk of being sold to the Chinese Communist Party, who are using biotechnology to gain a strategic advantage in… ...

Ms. Jacoby is the author of the forthcoming book “Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal.” Update: On Thursday the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that the federal ...

Hooters of America is working with creditors on a plan to restructure the business through bankruptcy court in the coming months, according to people with knowledge of the arrangements.