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Latest Bankruptcy Filings - Hearings Schedule & Missing Pages - Updated |
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Saturday, April 26 2008 @ 08:44 PM EDT
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We have the Order [PDF] now with the schedule for the upcoming bankruptcy omnibus hearings, and it goes like this:June 17 at 2 PM - Re quarterly fees
July 15 at 10 AM
August 13 at 10 AM
September 16, at 10 AM
What are they for? I have no idea, other than the first one, but I assume we'll find out closer to the dates. Not that they stick to announced schedules anyway. SCO has such a time getting ready. And Dorsey & Whitney acknowledge a clerical error resulted in 5 pages of billings being inadvertently omitted from its 5th bill's Exhibit D [PDF], the one from February. So they submit the missing pages [PDF] now. I confess it made me look that little bit more closely.
The mysterious D. Marx, who first surfaced in Berger Singerman's October bill shows up again in Dorsey & Whitney's omitted pages, and he has been a busy bee. It's all about SEC filings and blue sky requirements in California in connection with shares and about reissuing shares when you're in bankruptcy and writing proxy statements and lots of other higher math projects SCO has cooking. Let's see. How do we take the money and run and get away with it? Hey, what are lawyers for?
N. Brower is in on this also, and T. Sestak and a C. Jones. Nope. No relation. You must know by now math skills don't run in my family at all, which I would guess makes SCO very, very glad. Um. Wait. What's this? D. Marx was researching "issues relating to securities issuances while in bankruptcy" on February 5, while C. Jones on the 12th reviewed documents "to determine number of preferred shares available for issuance." Oh, lordy. Now what's the plan? Do they never quit? Evidently not, since N. Brower researched the same topic the same day, along with the question whether beneficial interests in a liquidating entity need to be registered with the SEC. More on California, with C. Peters drafting a transmittal letter to California's Department of Corporations "concerning compliance of registrations of stock plan." Whose stock plan? Is SCO moving to California? After it throws off its cocoon and turns into a post-Chapter-11 butterfly, it's heading for California? Shame about those recently renewed leases in Utah and Massachusetts, if so. See? I told you they weren't hopping a midnight plane to Rio. And why would they write this? C. Peters downloaded the filed proxy for 2007 "in Microsoft Word format". For historians, perchance. Once upon a time, in a universe far, far away, people used to use proprietary software called Microsoft Word .... "Dad! Stop fooling around. That's silly. You're *embarrassing* us. Nobody would ever do *that*!" Meanwhile, back to February billings, D. Marx was working on another interesting tidbit: preparing an email to send to a shareholder "who wants to submit a proposal for the annual meeting." Ah! Now there's an idea. Submitting proposals for SCO's annual meeting. I think we should come up with some suggestions, just for fun. They never take our advice anyway, but here's mine: Cut it out. Fess up. Ask Boies Schiller for some money back. Pay what you owe Novell and IBM and Red Hat. Groklaw has a tip box. You should. You know you should. You know you owe me. Too radical? Well, had they paid attention in my GPL Summer School and other advice back in 2003, they'd have avoided a lot of trouble. Not that it isn't superlative fun watching folks dance and prance when they see chickens on the horizon flying home. Of course, I'm just kidding around. I don't want their money. Nobody wants their code. Not a dime. Not a line. Here are all the filings:
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Filed & Entered: 04/22/2008
Transfer/Assignment of Claim
Docket Text: Transfer/Assignment of Claim. Transfer Agreement 3001 (e) 2 Transferor: CCI NETWORK SERVICES To REVENUE MANAGEMENT. Filed by Revenue Management. (Kane, Dana)
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Filed & Entered: 04/23/2008
Certificate of No Objection
Docket Text: Certificate of No Objection (No Order Required) Regarding Sixth Interim Application of Tanner LC for Compensation for Services and Reimbursement of Expenses as Accountants to the Debtors for the Period from March 4, 2008 through March 31, 2008 (related document(s)[424] ) Filed by The SCO Group, Inc.. (Attachments: # (1) Certificate of Service and Service List) (Werkheiser, Rachel)
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Filed & Entered: 04/24/2008
Certification of Counsel
Docket Text: Certification of Counsel Regarding Omnibus Hearing Dates Filed by The SCO Group, Inc.. (Attachments: # (1)
Proposed Form of Order # (2) Certificate of Service and Service List) (Werkheiser, Rachel)
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Filed & Entered: 04/24/2008
Notice of Service
Docket Text: Notice of Service Notice of Filing Supplemental Detail to Fifth Monthly Fee Application of Dorsey & Whitney LLP for the Period February 1, 2008 through February 29, 2008 (related document(s)[433] ) Filed by Dorsey & Whitney LLP. (Schnabel, Eric)
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Filed & Entered: 04/25/2008
Order Setting Omnibus Hearing Dates
Docket Text: Order Setting Omnibus Hearing Dates. All hearings will be held at US Bankruptcy Court, 824 Market St., 6th Fl., Courtroom #3, Wilmington, Delaware (Related document(s)[453] ). Omnibus Hearings scheduled for 6/17/2008 at 02:00 PM., 7/15/2008 at 10:00 AM., 8/13/2008 at 10:00 AM., 9/16/2008 at 10:00 AM. Signed on 4/25/2008. (JAF, )
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Filed & Entered: 04/25/2008
Affidavit/Declaration of Service
Docket Text: Affidavit/Declaration of Service of Epiq Bankruptcy Solutions, LLC (related document(s)[451] ) Filed by The SCO Group, Inc.. (Werkheiser, Rachel)
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Filed & Entered: 04/25/2008
Affidavit/Declaration of Service
Docket Text: Affidavit/Declaration of Service Regarding [Signed] Hearing Scheduling Order (related document(s)[455] ) Filed by The SCO Group, Inc.. (Werkheiser, Rachel)
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Filed & Entered: 04/25/2008
Certificate of Service
Docket Text: Certificate of Service of Notice of Filing of Supplemental Detail to Fifth Monthly Fee Application of Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Special Counsel to the Debtors and Debtors-in-Possession for the Period February 1, 2008 through February 29, 2008 Filed by Dorsey & Whitney LLP. (Schnabel, Eric) Update: D. Marx appears to be David Marx of Dorsey & Whitney. His specialties, according to his company bio are the following:
Mr. Marx is an Associate in Dorsey's Corporate group, focusing his practice on corporate and securities law. Mr. Marx advises public and private companies in connection with a wide variety of corporate and securities law matters including mergers and acquisitions, private placements and venture capital financings, 144A offerings, SEC reporting and regulatory matters, Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance, NASDAQ and NYSE compliance matters, and general corporate counseling and governance. In addition, he has represented issurers and underwriters in public equity offerings.
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Authored by: tyche on Saturday, April 26 2008 @ 08:49 PM EDT |
Please indicate where the correction is.
Craig
Tyche
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Authored by: DannyB on Saturday, April 26 2008 @ 08:52 PM EDT |
Please make links clickable.
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Authored by: tyche on Saturday, April 26 2008 @ 08:53 PM EDT |
Please put the title of the news pick in the title of your post.
Craig
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Authored by: The Mad Hatter r on Saturday, April 26 2008 @ 10:05 PM EDT |
If they were to admit that this was all a scam from Day One, it would be
vultures, not chickens gathering on the horizon. This is of course the problem
with taking a path that is based on dishonesty, once you're on it, you're riding
the tiger.
Of course I could be doing a great disservice to the management group at TSCOG,
and they may have been acting honestly all along. But I doubt it.
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Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Saturday, April 26 2008 @ 10:07 PM EDT |
Seems to kinda fit.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 26 2008 @ 10:11 PM EDT |
D. Marx was researching "issues relating to securities issuances
while in bankruptcy" on February 5, while C. Jones on the 12th reviewed
documents "to determine number of preferred shares available for issuance." Oh,
lordy. Now what's the plan?
It is common for bankrupt companies
to convert debt to equity by issuing shares to creditors. This dilutes the value
of existing shares, but allows the company to exit bankruptcy without the burden
of paying interest on loans (excessive debt is a common reason for bankruptcy).
Also, shares are sometimes used as bonuses for the executives as an
"incentive" to remain. These bonuses can be very large. It is easier for a
bankrupt company to be generous with shareholder's equity than it is to spend
cash. The original shareholders can easily end up with less than 10% of the
equity in the post-bankruptcy company.
A possible scenario for SCO would be
to issue new shares to pay off creditors (and possibly Novell as well), along
with large blocks of shares issued to SCO executives. SCO can then exit
bankruptcy and take on new debt (from York, SNCP, etc.) to continue on in
business as before. Voting rights could be set up so that the creditors get
non-voting preferred shares, and the executives get common shares with voting
privileges.
Another scenario is that this was in some way related to a
proposed SNCP deal. That deal may have involved issuing new equity to SNCP
rather than a simple sale of assets.
Generally though, I would not be
surprised if SCO were to propose issuing new equity with various complex
limitations attached to them and using these to pay Novell. The shares would be
restricted such that Novell could not use them to exercise any control over SCO. [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Erwan on Sunday, April 27 2008 @ 04:16 AM EDT |
What are the omnibus hearings for?
To keep the Groklaw 7 busy.
:-)
Unless it is just standard practice in Delaware
Bankruptcy Court to plan
monthly hearings a few at a time.
The previous 2 orders setting omnibus
hearings were:
- [57] - Omnibus Hearings
scheduled for 05-Oct-2007 at
01:30 PM., 06-Nov-2007 at 02:00 PM., 05-Dec-2007
at 10:00
AM., 08-Jan-2008 at 10:00 AM., 05-Feb-2008 at 10:00 AM.
- [326] - Omnibus Hearings
scheduled for 07-Mar-2008 at
02:00 PM., 18-Apr-2008 at 01:30 PM., 15-May-2008
at 10:00
AM.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 27 2008 @ 11:59 AM EDT |
As someone who has been following this sad sorry story on Groklaw for EVER, I
just have to say that this:
<i>Cut it out. Fess up. Ask Boies Schiller for some money back. Pay what
you owe Novell and IBM and Red Hat. Groklaw has a tip box. You should. You know
you should. You know you owe me.</i>
made me laugh. Not merely out loud, but for several minutes.
PJ, you are an amazing person, and Groklaw is probably one of the best things on
the interweb. I will be using the tip box. Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou.[ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: lordshipmayhem on Sunday, April 27 2008 @ 01:33 PM EDT |
Neither a relative of Groucho or of Karl, I speculate that this is a pseudonym.
It's actually this intern's grade during law school.[ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: ak on Sunday, April 27 2008 @ 02:27 PM EDT |
There could be a good reason why they mention that the downloaded file was in
"Microsoft Word" format. One issue with that file could be the history
feature or other features of this sort of binary files.[ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 28 2008 @ 08:47 AM EDT |
According to Time Line
29-Apr-2008 SCO vs Novell [484] Jury Trial set for 17-Sep-2007 29-Apr-2008
08:30 AM in Room 220 246 220 before Judge Dale A. Kimball. [Note: Jury trial
denied by [453]. Courtroom changed by [460]. Date stayed by [471] changed by
[484].]
Is this still current or has SCO pulled another fast one?[ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 28 2008 @ 12:19 PM EDT |
I did a search in Google News today and got only one web page - one web site
covered the fact that a trial is coming up! Just go to Google News and enter
SCO vs Novell.
Everyone asleep at the "Media Wheel"! Or is Google playing games? You
know
multi-billionaires have to protect each other's ass.[ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 28 2008 @ 04:23 PM EDT |
Doesn't SCO have some subsidiaries which are not in bankruptcy?
Take your patents, transfer them to that company for a fair fee, then sell the
non-bankrupted subsidiary for a fair fee to someone else (who will agree to hire
you on, and give you a nice stock option). SCO stock is traded in at some
reasonable exchange rate with this new outside company.
Then the SCO ship can be left to quietly sink beneath the waves.
Wait, what stock holders. I thought they were all insiders by this time.[ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 28 2008 @ 06:12 PM EDT |
TBA 15:15 PDT [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 29 2008 @ 08:32 AM EDT |
Why would they want to move to California? Because they want to rename
themselves to The Santa Cruz Operation of course![ Reply to This | # ]
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