The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit should revisit whether Georgia-Pacific LLC is entitled to legal protections stemming from the bankruptcy of its asbestos liability holding subsidiary, a committee of cancer patients said.
A three-judge panel for the Fourth Circuit erred last month when it upheld a preliminary injunction blocking thousands of asbestos exposure lawsuits against Georgia-Pacific, an official committee of asbestos claimants said in a filing Wednesday. The committee urged the entire court to rehear the appeal.
The June 20 ruling, in favor of Georgia-Pacific and the company’s bankrupt subsidiary Bestwall LLC, “provides a roadmap for ...
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