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Pfister, called Price Pfister until 2010, is an American manufacturer of bathroom and lavatory faucets, shower systems, showerheads and accessories, kitchen faucets and other plumbing fixtures. Emil Price and William Pfister founded the company in 1910. Today, Pfister is owned by Assa Abloy.
The California energy commission approved new maximum flowrates for fixtures sold in California. [5] As of January 1,2016, toilets sold in the state of California must not exceed 1.28 gpf. As of July 1, 2016, bathroom facets sold in California cannot exceed 1.2 gpf. As of July 1, 2018, showerheads cannot exceed 1.8 gpm.
In 1999, during the dot-com bubble, the company was launched as FaucetDirect by Christian Friedland and David Boctor, former classmates at California State University, Chico. [3] As of 2006, Friedland owned 52% of the company. [4] He turned down venture capital and instead sold the company to Ferguson plc, then called Wolseley UK, for $35 ...
Former Orange County Complex Litigation Program judge Gail A. Andler [55] is a past president of the American College of Business Court Judges (ACBCJ), [56] and a number of California's complex litigation judges (including judge Elihu Berle [57]), and Minnesota complex litigation judge Jerome B. Abrams, [58] have served as Business Court ...
Bankruptcy is a legally declared inability or impairment of ability of an individual or organization to pay their creditors. In most cases personal bankruptcy is initiated by the bankrupt individual. Bankruptcy is a legal process that discharges most debts, but has the disadvantage of making it more difficult for an individual to borrow in the ...
The study found that "about half" of bankruptcy filers in the year 2001 cited out-of-pocket medical bills in excess of $10,000 as a major contributor to bankruptcy (the average bankruptcy filer in this study was a 41-year-old woman with a median income of $25,000, slightly below the personal income average for that year).
These two conditions laid the foundations for modern strategic bankruptcy. [3] Strategic bankruptcy occurs where bankruptcy is a strategic choice rather than an unavoidable condition. Such a choice might be made to avoid or reduce heavy legal judgements, to sidestep existing contracts, or even as a tool for manipulative debt reduction.
They are the bankruptcy law counterpart to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Title I of the Bankruptcy Amendments and Federal Judgeship Act of 1984, Pub. L. No. 98–353, created a new bankruptcy judicial system in which the role of the district court was substantially increased.