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A five-year legal battle between the city of Fort Worth and its former top cop reached the finish line. The city council unanimously voted to pass an agreement to pay $9.6 million in total to ...
The council also approved an $825,000 settlement with the family of Jerry Waller, a 72-year-old Woodhaven man killed by police in 2013 after police mistook his home for the one across the street.
The City Council will have to vote on whether to accept the settlement, which could come as early as the 6 p.m. meeting on Aug. 13. Fort Worth has allocated $2 million to fighting Fitzgerald’s case.
Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P., 603 U.S. ___ (2024), is a United States Supreme Court case regarding Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. [ 1] This case is about the settlement by Purdue Pharmaceutical for opioid victims who overdosed with the OxyContin drug produced by their company. The justices determined that the Bankruptcy Code does not ...
DIP. v. t. e. Chapter 7 of Title 11 U.S. Code is the bankruptcy code that governs the process of liquidation under the bankruptcy laws of the U.S. In contrast to bankruptcy under Chapter 11 and Chapter 13, which govern the process of reorganization of a debtor, Chapter 7 bankruptcy is the most common form of bankruptcy in the U.S. [ 1]
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were several short-lived federal bankruptcy laws before the Act of 1898: the Bankruptcy Act of 1800, [3] which was repealed in 1803; the Act of 1841, [4] which was repealed in 1843; and the Act of 1867, [5] which was amended in 1874 [6] and ...
Bankruptcy discharge. A bankruptcy discharge is a court order that releases an individual or business from specific debts and obligations they owe to creditors. In other words, it's a legal process that eliminates the debtor's liability to pay certain types of debts they owe before filing the bankruptcy case. [1]
Debt settlement, debt management plans and debt consolidation are among the most popular debt relief options. ... — Chapter 7 and Chapter 13. Both types of bankruptcy can help you discharge ...