American court hearing recordings and interviews

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This is the argument to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, released to the Court's website June 8, 2026.

The argument opens with an interesting discussion of standing that the Supreme Court might consider on appeal.

Status as of today, August 25, 2026, is the US Supreme Court has entered a stay, allowing construction to continue for now. https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/08/supreme-court-allows-white-house-ballroom-construction-to-continue-for-now/

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This is a podcast of the hearing on emergency motion to stay pending appeal. It is a matter of public record, docketed by the U.S. bankruptcy court as docket number 744,, as per the usual court practice under U.S. law.

Does anyone have a prediction how the QVC bankruptcy appeal is going to work out?

For example, if the parties appealing and seeking a stay pending appeal withdraw their requests for relief, will there be an inquiry whether this is because they have been paid off and how much they have been paid? Or...

discussing QVC's bank accounts including the QVC Chinese bank account(s)

Until a few days ago, when I was locked out of the website of the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI), I had served as a Coordinating Editor, International helping authors publish educational articles about bankruptcy law in the ABI Journal.

After I was locked out of the ABI website I came forward as a whistle blower, requesting help from my government requesting an outside audit of the ABI as I believe my lockout of the website may have been in retaliation to concerns I have expressed to the ABI Presidents and Chairman of the board and other at...

This is from a few years ago, when I was a shareholder in a publicly traded company in the U.S. called Ocean Rig & I litigated to lift the injunction that stopped shareholders from suing for fraud. Ocean Rig was acquired by Transocean as part of the Ocean Rig bankruptcy in the U.S., which was not disclosed to shareholders in Ocean Rig,

Transocean was featured in the movie Deepwater Horizon, which is about the explosion of a rig in the Gulf of Mexico designed to operate in deep water and drill down tens of...

filed on the FTX bankruptcy docket as docket number 35836 (a PDF file with an embedded mp3 file)

Listen to the first hearing of the new California water rights bankruptcy in Delaware, held 6/15/2026

The Searles Valley Minerals bankruptcy petition lists, as equity security holders of the debtors, Karnavati Holdings, Inc. and Searles Valley Minerals Inc.

The Delaware bankruptcy court hearing was an abnormal bankruptcy hearing held the day a bankruptcy was filed in Delaware, during a trial in California, before the “first day” hearing in the bankruptcy in Delaware scheduled for tomorrow.

The Delaware bankruptcy judge seemed concerned about what’s going on (in a way that reminded me of the movie...

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This is the official court audio, posted by the Court of Appeals on November 5, 2025. I am reposting today because the Court of Appeals has handed down a ruling today affirming the criminal conviction.

Below are my thoughts from the day of the argument on appeal...

The appellate argument is in the appeal of Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal conviction which proceeded, before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The argument was scheduled for 20 minutes or so and went beyond an hour. The bench was a hot bench, with the judges on the pa...

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opening with a presentation by the QVC bankruptcy case financiers

Listen to the closing arguments in preferred equity trial and in support of QVC chapter 11 plan confirmation, made to the bankruptcy court before the matter was taken under advisement

The QVC group tax situation sounds terrible, like the court should consider liquidating the companies and ordering an investigation how things go to where they are that a bankruptcy was needed.

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continuing questioning of Mr Meltzer

continuing questioning of Mr Meltzer

continuing questioning of Mr Meltzer

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hearsay tale presented to the US bankruptcy court in Delaware of alleged happenings in Mexico, in support of proposed retention of Mexican counsel over objections