A US bankruptcy court must approve that deal.

美国一家破产法院必须批准这笔交易。

Detroit, for one, was left to write down its debts in bankruptcy court.

底特律就是例子，当时底特律在破产法院记录下了自己的债务。

A federal bankruptcy court first approved this controversial deal way back in 2020. Then it was overturned.

早在2020年，一家联邦破产法院就首次批准了这一充满争议的协议。但随后它被推翻了。

The Sacklers won protection from a bankruptcy court without actually filing for bankruptcy. Does that set a precedent?

萨克勒家族没有实际申请破产就获得了破产法庭的保护。这开了一个先例吗?

In September, Lehman Brothers, the nation's fourth-largest investment bank, sought protection in bankruptcy court. Its failure only deepened the fears in credit markets.

今年9月，美国第四大投资银行雷曼兄弟公司向破产案法庭寻求保护。它的失败只会加深信贷市场的担忧。

We went to bankruptcy court because of him?

都是他害得我们要上破产法庭？

So all of those issues are coming to a head before Judge Steven Rhodes today in Detroit federal bankruptcy court.

因此，今天在底特律联邦破产法院，所有这些问题都将在法官史蒂文罗德斯面前浮出水面。

Should bankruptcy courts have the power to approve deals like this that allow wealthy people or companies to pay cash as part of settlements in exchange for protection from lawsuits?

破产法庭是否有权力批准这样的协议，允许富人或公司支付现金作为和解的一部分，以换取免受诉讼的保护?

America's credit squeeze is getting tighter and tighter, and that's leading a lot of big US companies to take shelter in bankruptcy court.

美国的信贷紧缩越来越紧，这导致许多美国大公司向破产法庭寻求庇护。

A judge decided that the parent company would still have to fight the lawsuits in the civil courts rather than the bankruptcy court.

法官裁定，母公司仍需在民事法庭而不是破产法庭打官司。

He stated in the ruling that the bankruptcy court is the optimal venue for redressing the harms of both present and future talc claimants.

他在裁决中表示， 破产法庭是纠正当前和未来滑石索赔人所受伤害的最佳场所。

Lawyers for Purdue Pharma, the maker of oxycontin, appeared in a New York bankruptcy court, part of a plan to help reimburse state and local governments for the damage done by prescription painkillers and illegal opioids.

奥斯康定的制造商普渡制药的律师出现在纽约一家破产法庭上，这是一项补偿州政府和地方政府因处方止痛药和非法阿片类药物造成损失的计划的一部分。

Hefty debt piles (average leverage in large American buy-outs is now more than seven times ebitda, the highest since 2007) make getting this right critical to avoiding the bankruptcy courts.

沉重的债务负担（美国大型收购的平均杠杆率现在是 ebitda 的七倍多，是 2007 年以来的最高水平）使得获得这一权利对于避免破产法庭至关重要。

So this means that once again, the talc claimants will have the opportunity to try to prove that a bankruptcy court is not the right place to hear these sorts of cases.

因此，这意味着滑石索赔人将再次有机会尝试证明破产法庭不是审理此类案件的合适场所。

It is also likely to leave less value for leveraged-loan investors when they find themselves round a restructuring table or in a bankruptcy court, since there will be more claims secured against a firm's assets.

当杠杆贷款投资者面临重组或进入破产法庭时， 他们的价值也可能会减少，因为会有更多针对公司资产的债权。

The governor has always said that he's gone into this process reluctantly, that he was hoping that through a series of consent agreements and other measures they had hoped to keep Detroit out of bankruptcy court.

州长一直表示，他不情愿地进入了这个过程，他希望通过一系列同意协议和其他措施，让底特律免于破产。