Enron Redux

Featured prominently in business and financial headlines in late 2005 and early 2006 were a pair of highly controversial rulings handed down by the New York bankruptcy court overseeing the Chapter 11 cases of embattled energy broker Enron Corporation and its affiliates. Now, in a carefully reasoned 53-page opinion, District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin recently vacated both of the controversial rulings. <i>In re Enron Corp.</i>, 2007 WL 2446498 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 27, 2007).

33 minute readOctober 30, 2007 at 11:01 AM
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Mark G. Douglas
Enron Redux

Featured prominently in business and financial headlines in late 2005 and early 2006 were a pair of highly controversial rulings handed down by the New York bankruptcy court overseeing the

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