Sorrento Therapeutics Inc. is seeking to block a request from shareholders for information about its knowledge of a romantic relationship between a Texas judge and a lawyer who was involved in its bankruptcy.
Equity holders, who stand to be wiped out by the bankruptcy, objected to the company’s proposed Chapter 11 plan last week. At the same time, their lawyer contacted Sorrento’s lead counsel at Latham & Watkins seeking information about whether Latham or Sorrento knew of a relationship between attorney Elizabeth Freeman and David R. Jones, the bankruptcy judge who was overseeing Sorrento’s Chapter 11 case.
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