Injunction Protecting Georgia-Pacific Is Wrong, Asbestos Claimants Say

(August 23, 2022, 12:24 PM EDT) -- RICHMOND, Va. — Lacking bankruptcy court jurisdiction from a corporate restructuring to receive an injunction blocking asbestos tort claims, multibillion dollar retailer Georgia-Pacific “set out in advance to manipulate the facts and law” by creating Bestwall LLC, saddling it with all asbestos liabilities and putting it into bankruptcy using “improperly designed and misleading agreements” between the companies to obtain the injunctive relief it sought, asbestos claimants’ representatives say in a July 22 reply brief for their appeal of the injunction in the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals....