NEW YORK (AP) General Motors Corp., hoping for a quick exit from Chapter 11, on Tuesday will ask a bankruptcy judge to approve its plan to refashion itself as a leaner automaker owned mostly by the government. The nation's largest ...

... Auto Workers had been willing to countenance previously. Still, it is not quite the radical change that a neutral bankruptcy judge might have allowed. Fourteen closed plants is two fewer than the task force itself initially wanted, and three ...

... worth as much when you don't have the ability to operate it," she said. U.S. Judge Arthur Gonzalez, the bankruptcy judge overseeing Chrysler's case, approved the sale on Sunday. He ruled that the funds do not have the standing to ...

... value and it's doubtful that there will be available to pay consumer claims. U.S. Judge Arthur Gonzalez, the bankruptcy judge overseeing Chrysler's case, approved the sale last Sunday, finding that the deal with Fiat was Chrysler's only ...

... decided to shrink the number of dealers. Chrysler released its list first. Hundreds of dealers objected, but a bankruptcy judge approved the automaker's plan to drop 789 U.S. dealerships. (GM eventually expects to shed about 40 percent ...

... appeal would assert that the bankruptcy judge overstepped his authority by ... proceed expeditiously." The bankruptcy judge's ruling followed a three ... lasted about a week after the bankruptcy judge cleared the deal. The objections ...

... could be out of federal prison and in a Virginia halfway house by Jan. 20, one of his attorneys told a federal bankruptcy judge Tuesday. Vick is serving a 23-month prison term in Leavenworth, Kan., for bankrolling a dogfighting conspiracy ...

... Delphi seeks to end health benefits for retirees DETROIT (AP) Troubled auto parts supplier Delphi Corp. has asked a bankruptcy judge to allow it to cancel health care and life insurance benefits for current and future salaried retirees, citing the ...

... something of a renegade within his millionaire peers. He was the only one to agree to a proposal that would let bankruptcy judges alter home loans in an effort to prevent foreclosures. He also said he has asked his board of directors to pay him ...

... incentives and penalties to make sure mortgage companies take part. Obama said he backs legislation in Congress to allow bankruptcy judges to modify the terms of primary home loans an idea ardently opposed by the lending industry. "Taken together, the ...