The Bankruptcy Deadline Checklist is a quick reference guide for those who handle bankruptcy cases including judges, lawyers, paralegals, credit managers, collection agents, professors, law students, and others.

On March 2, 2016, Sports Authority Holdings, Inc. and six of its affiliates filed chapter 11 petitions before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (lead case 16-10527).  The cases have been assigned to the Honorable Mary F.

In 2009, there were 140 failed banks. So far this year, 16 more banks have been seized by the FDIC. There are 702 banks currently on the FDIC's troubled banks list, and regulators and analysts predict that several hundred of those likely will fail over the next two years.