SmileDirectClub Founders Move to End Bankruptcy Trustee Lawsuit

Shuttered dental alignment brand SmileDirectClub Inc.'s founders and top executives urged a court to throw out a bankruptcy trustee’s lawsuit, saying many of the claims are time-barred or fail on substance.

“Rather than plead facts suggesting that each (or any) particular officer or director violated any particular duty, the amended complaint offers a mishmash of nonspecific allegations,” the executives said Monday in a motion to dismiss SmileDirectClub liquidating trustee Allison Byman’s claims against them.

Founders Jordan Katzman and Alex Fenkell, and CEO David Katzman—Jordan’s father—were among the defendants accused of enriching themselves and attempting to hide serious medical risks to ...