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[IWS] Number of Bankruptcy Cases Filed in Federal Courts Down Less Than One Percent [27 August 2004]

IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies                 Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations          Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor                  Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016                      Director, IWS News Bureau
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Bankruptcy Statistics

Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
August 27, 2004 Contact: Karen Redmond
Number of Bankruptcy Cases Filed in Federal Courts Down Less Than One Percent
http://www.uscourts.gov/Press_Releases/june04bk.pdf
[full-text, 6 pages]

For more data, see -
http://www.uscourts.gov/bnkrpctystats/bankruptcystats.htm

The total number of bankruptcies filed in federal courts declined slightly in the 12-month period ending
June 30, 2004, the first time since 2000 that bankruptcies have declined in the 12-month period ending June 30.
The total number of bankruptcy cases filed in this 12-month period totaled 1,635,725, down 0.9 percent from
June 30, 2003, when filings were 1,650,279. The data were released today by the Administrative Office of the
U.S. Courts. Bankruptcy filings remain well above the one million mark, a record first set in the 12-month period ending
June 30, 1996.
Non-business filings totaled 1,599,986, down 0.8 from the 1,613,097 cases filed during the 12-month period
ending June 30, 2003. In the 12-month period ending June 30, 2004, businessfilings dropped to 35,739, down 3.9
percent from 37,182.


AND MUCH MORE...including TABLES....
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