Bankruptcy
Oct. 10, 2007
Bankrupt Companies Turn to East Coast Courts
California bankruptcy courts have lost cases to more desirable venues in other parts of the nation in recent years. Judge Randall Newsome, a bankruptcy judge in California, filled in as a visiting judge in Delaware from 2001 to 2003. He says there were cases in Delaware that could have been filed in Oakland or San Francisco.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - A curious thought struck U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Randall Newsome on one of his many long trips to Delaware to sit on that state's bustling federal bankruptcy court a few years ago.
Newsome, chief judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, realized that he was, in effect, traversing the length ...
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