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Patriot Coal Corp., the bankrupt coal producer, won’t be moving ahead with its Chapter 11 reorganization as fast as it promised last week.

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Patriot will ask the judge at a Sept. 13 hearing for an order compelling Peabody to speed up document production.

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Despite the appeal, Patriot has said it continues negotiating with the union over consensual changes to contracts and retirement benefits.

Patriot Coal Corp. received formal court approval on July 26 to pay as much as $2 million to Knighthead Capital Management and Aurelius Capital Management.

Patriot Coal Corp., the bankrupt mining company, won court approval of a proposal that will reduce pensions and benefits to unionized workers and retirees.

The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a rebuff to gun-rights advocates including the National Rifle Association, leaving intact New York’s requirement that people wishing to carry a handgun in public show a special need for protection.

The company behind the “Girls Gone Wild” videos filed for bankruptcy to protect itself from a $10.3 million debt claimed by Steve Wynn’s Wynn Las Vegas and a $5.8 million award won by a St. Louis woman who says the company used naked images of her without permission.

Monsanto Co. squares off this week against a 76-year-old Indiana farmer in a U.S. Supreme Court hearing with implications spanning industries from engineered fish to biotechnology medicines.

Monsanto Co. squares off next week against a 76-year-old Indiana farmer in a U.S. Supreme Court hearing with implications spanning industries from engineered fish to biotechnology medicines.

Anheuser-Busch InBev’s bid to buy Grupo Modelo may face an obstacle unforeseen by the parties when the Justice Department sued to block the deal — assignment of the case to Washington’s slowest federal judge.

The lawsuit challenging Anheuser-Busch InBev’s $20.1 billion proposed takeover of Grupo Modelo is part of a record-breaking U.S. docket of civil antitrust cases, reflecting the Obama administration’s greater willingness to intervene in markets, according to some antitrust scholars.