The court found that debtor owner and liquidators of a furniture company were not required to provide the 60-day Federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notice because the imposition of various government orders due to the coronavirus outbreak and the outbreak itself constituted an unforeseeable business circumstance and natural disaster that exempted the debtor from the WARN Act.

Court Denies Debtor Diocese's Motion To Authorize Process for Sale of Campus

Government sanctions that blocked the transfer of shares did not preclude the court from authorizing the eventual issuance of writs of attachment, pending government approval, as mere authorization did not alter sanctioned body's continued ownership of the shares and therefore did not effect a prohibited transfer.