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GOING TO COURT: ?Three of Chrysler?s secured creditors are mounting a fresh attempt to thwart the?

By Glenn Reynolds

GOING TO COURT: “Three of Chrysler?s secured creditors are mounting a fresh attempt to thwart the carmaker?s Chapter 11 reorganisation on the grounds that it violates their legal rights and the US government?s authority under the Troubled asset relief programme.” Amusingly, they’re pension trusts for unionized state employees.

UPDATE: Related: Chrysler’s chickens, coming home to roost. “Pacific Investment Management Co., Barclays Capital and Fridson Investment Advisors have joined Schultze Asset Management LLC in saying lenders may be unwilling to back unionized companies with underfunded pension and medical obligations, such as airlines and auto-industry suppliers, because Chrysler?s creditors failed to block Obama?s move. The reluctance may put additional pressure on borrowers seeking capital in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on May 20, 2009 (boomark / email).