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This is a list of Supreme Court of the United States cases in the area of bankruptcy. This list is a list solely of United States Supreme Court decisions about applying law related to bankruptcy. Not all Supreme Court decisions are ultimately influential and, as in other fields, not all important decisions are made at the Supreme Court level.
The year 2008, as of September 17, had seen 81 public corporations file for bankruptcy in the United States, already higher than the 78 for all of 2007. The largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history also made 2008 a record year in terms of assets, with Lehman's size—$691 billion (~$960 billion in 2023) in assets—alone surpassing all past ...
[2] [3] At the end of 2022, the US banking industry had a total of about $620 billion in unrealized losses as a result of investments weakened by rising interest rates. [4] A bank failure is the closing of a bank by a federal or state banking regulatory agency. The FDIC is named as receiver for a bank's assets when its capital levels are too ...
US bankruptcy filings are picking up steam after a two-year decline. According to a report released by S&P Global Market Intelligence, there were 591 bankruptcy filings as of Nov. 30 this year ...
This high-end beauty brand's U.S. division filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection at the end of January, citing crushing rent obligations in light of COVID-19's drag on sales. The chain had ...
First quarter 2010: Delinquency rates in the United States peaked at 11.54%. [196] April 15, 2010: U.S. Senate introduced bill S.3217, Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010. [197] May 2010: The U.S. Senate passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The Volcker Rule against proprietary trading was not part ...
Party City. In a move to cut its mounting debt, Party City filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January. The retailer has accumulated $1.7 billion in debt after years of declining sales ...
Originally, bankruptcy in the United States, as nearly all matters directly concerning individual citizens, was a subject of state law. However, there were several short-lived federal bankruptcy laws before the Act of 1898: the Bankruptcy Act of 1800, [3] which was repealed in 1803; the Act of 1841, [4] which was repealed in 1843; and the Act of 1867, [5] which was amended in 1874 [6] and ...