The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently approved injunctive relief as part of a strategy for settling mass tort claims through the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case of Bestwall LLC, an entity created by Georgia-Pacific LLC. A divided three-judge panel upheld a U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of North Carolina injunction that barred asbestos- injury claimants from continuing litigation against a nondebtor, finding that the bankruptcy court had jurisdiction and applied…
By: Holland & Hart LLP
By: Holland & Hart LLP