As courts across the country deal with scaled back operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, bankruptcy courts in New Jersey and Delaware have issued novel orders to address the impact of the virus on certain debtors.  Last month, debtors in the chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of Modell’s Sporting Goods, Inc. and CraftWorks Parent, LLC each sought and obtained court orders suspending certain case activity which, for all intents and purposes “mothballed” the cases for a certain period of time.
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Brazil’s Odebrecht Files for Bankruptcy in U.S. [WSJ; August 26, 2019]

Ditech plan rejected as judge finds that company can’t sell mortgage-servicing rights and reverse-mortgage business free and clear of consumer claims [Bloomberg; August 28, 2019]

First annual upturn in corporate insolvencies globally, since the financial crisis, with marked upturn in North America in particular