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"a bill that likely will never be paid"
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 16 2013 @ 05:26 PM EDT
Things work very strangely in bankruptcy court. Not only are the rules and laws
different, but apparently the courts don't even have to follow them and do
pretty much what they want. Not a pretty picture.

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"a bill that likely will never be paid"
Authored by: tknarr on Monday, June 17 2013 @ 12:53 PM EDT

I think the rule is that it's not fraud to agree to pay someone, even if you don't intend to pay them. It only becomes fraud (or at least they only have grounds to sue you for fraud) when you fail to pay them. The assumption is that anyone being asked to work for SCO will take a look at the financial situation and decide based on that whether to extend them credit (work for them and bill them, expecting the bill to be paid) or not (demand payment up front before doing the work). This, BTW, is one of the reasons why bankruptcy lawyers insist on being paid before they'll file for you.

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