Trustee Rejects Claim That Judge-Lawyer Relationship Didn’t Require Disclosure

(July 26, 2024, 9:02 AM EDT) -- HOUSTON — In a battle over fees awarded to a law firm in the Honx Inc. asbestos bankruptcy case, the trustee told the court that a relationship between one of the firm’s partners and a bankruptcy judge in the same district at the very least gives the appearance of partiality and the argument that the firm didn’t need to disclose the relationship is “astonishing.”...