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• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Business Briefs Column.

  - 1999-07-15

  Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 16 -- EX-HOSPITAL EXECS FIGHT FOR SEVERANCE PACKAGES: Three former top officials of Allegheny University Hospitals-West have asked federal bankruptcy court Judge M. Bruce McCullough to rescind his order forbidding the health system from awarding them millions of dollars...

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• Federated settles credit case.(Brief Article)

  - 1998-02-23

  Federated Department Stores Inc. last week said it has reached a settlement agreement with 20 state attorneys general involving personal bankruptcy cases where approximately 13,500 credit reaffirmations had not been properly filed in bankruptcy courts, or approved by those courts. Dennis J. Broderick, Federated...

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• Cincinatti-Based Federated Department Stores Agrees to $10 Million Settlement.

  - 1998-02-18

  By Bruce Mohl, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 18--The parent company of Macy's and Bloomingdale's yesterday agreed to a $10 million settlement with 20 states on charges the department store chains broke the law in their dealings...

  Tags: bankruptcy, Boston Globe, Federated Department Stores Inc., Litigation, SALES, Sears Roebuck & Co., settlement

• Federated to Pay $5 Million to Settle Illegal-Credit-Collections Case.

  - 1998-02-17

  By Mark Albright, St. Petersburg Times, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 17--Federated Department Stores Inc. has agreed to settle complaints that it illegally collected credit card payments from about 3,500 customers who had declared bankruptcy. ...

  Tags: bankruptcy, Federated Department Stores Inc., Litigation, SALES, Sears Roebuck & Co.

• Preliminary Court Approval Given to Credit Reaffirmation Settlement

  - 1997-08-28

  CINCINNATI--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 28, 1997--Federated Department Stores, Inc. announced that a federal judge in the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts has today preliminarily approved a settlement of a nationwide class action lawsuit brought on behalf of certain bankruptcy debtors who reaffirmed credit card debts owed to affiliates of Federated. ...

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• May, Penney's bid for Woodies still higher than Federated. (May Department Stores Co., J.C. Penney Co. Inc., Woodward & Lothrop Inc.; Federated Department Stores Inc.)(Brief Article)

  - 1995-08-08

  NEW YORK FNS -- May Department Stores Inc. and J.C. Penney remained the highest bidders in the Woodward & Lothrop Inc. sweepstakes late Monday, less than 24 hours before a bankruptcy court hearing to determine the winning offer for the department store chain. May and Penney's,...

  Tags: bankruptcy, creditor, Federated Department Stores Inc., J.C. Penney Co. Inc., Litigation, May Department Stores Co.

• Bankruptcy court sets hearing on Federated's Woodies deal.(Federated Department Stores Inc. to acquire Woodward and Lothrop Inc.)(Brief Article)

  - 1995-07-06

  NEW YORK FNS -- A bankruptcy court hearing to approve the $561 million purchase of Woodward & Lothrop Inc. by a four-member group led by Federated Department Stores Inc. is scheduled for Aug. 8. Federated, Strawbridge & Clothier, Boscov's Department Stores and The Rubin Organization, a...

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• Woodward & Lothrop Inc. to Sell Most of Its Assets to Retail Group.(Originated from Philadelphia Daily News)

  - 1995-06-22

  PHILADELPHIA--June 22--Goodbye, John Wanamaker. The name of the Philadelphian who invented the department store is about to disappear from retailing. The 14 Wanamaker stores are being sold. The companies buying them will be operating them under different names, assuming that an agreement announced yesterday is...

  Tags: asset, bankruptcy, Boscov, Federated Department Stores Inc., Litigation, Macy, Philadelphia

• Bankruptcy judge confirms merger of Macy's and Federated. (R.H. Macy and Co., Federated Department Stores Inc.) (Brief Article)

  - 1994-12-09

  NEW YORK FNS -- The historic marriage of R.H. Macy & Co. and Federated Department Stores, Inc., received the official blessing of a bankruptcy judge Thursday, who confirmed the companies' joint plan of reorganization. Macy's creditors, who will receive about $4.1 billion for...

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• Federated disclosure statement expected to illuminate little; to be filed today in Macy's Chap. 11. (Federated Department Stores Inc to file minimal disclosure statement in R. H. Macy & Co. Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan) (Brief Article)

  - 1994-08-31

  NEW YORK FNS -- Federated Department Stores, Inc., will file a skeletal disclosure statement in the R.H. Macy & Co. Chapter 11 this afternoon that sheds little light on the number of to be closed or the number of jobs it expects to eliminate, ...

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