Val says that while sometimes friends will send him articles about the bankruptcy case, he hasn't really kept up with what's going on.

瓦尔说， 虽然有时朋友会寄给他关于破产案的文章，但他并没有真正跟上正在发生的事情。

So the use of the two-step mechanism really follows a pattern over recent years whereby debtors have deployed much more aggressive tactics to deal with creditors and bankruptcy cases.

因此，两步机制的使用实际上遵循了近年来的一种模式， 即债务人采用更加积极的策略来处理债权人和破产案件。

It effectively said all those cases like Val Johnson's back to civil court so they could be heard by juries instead of them all being lumped together in one big bankruptcy case.

如 Val Johnson 的案件， 都将回到民事法庭， 这样它们就可以由陪审团审理， 而不是将它们全部集中在一个大的破产案件中。