A bankruptcy judge on Dec. 23 approved a motion allowing the Washington, D.C.-based Community Education Group, which provides AIDS-related services aimed at minority communities, to buy the legal rights to nine names linked to the National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA), the Washington Blade reported yesterday. Additionally, Bankruptcy Judge Paul Mannes directed the national group AIDS United, which opposes CEG’s purchase of at least one of the NAPWA-related names, to submit draft language for his final order clarifying the extent of the legal rights CEG would have for those names. Mannes was expected to make the final decision on what the order will say within the next week or two. With more than $750,000 owed to creditors, NAPWA shut its doors in February 2013 after filing for chapter 7 bankruptcy.
