By Amanda Bronstad | February 13, 2023
On Monday, U.S. Bankruptcy Chief Judge Jeffrey Graham, in Indianapolis, told lawyers that dismissal arguments would be April 19 and April 20, possibly extending to April 21.
By Amanda Bronstad | February 3, 2023
Lawyers suing 3M over its combat earplugs moved on Friday to dismiss the Chapter 11 case of its subsidiary, Aearo Technologies, citing the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit's ruling on Monday dismissing Johnson & Johnson's talc bankruptcy.
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By Isha Marathe | January 27, 2023
Microsoft cloud services went down for hours across the world, but observers say that, should such a dire situation occur, recourse is often murky and difficult to navigate.
By Amanda Bronstad | January 25, 2023
Plaintiffs suing over combat earplugs filed a brief on Wednesday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to affirm an Aug. 26 bankruptcy decision not to extend a Chapter 11 case's automatic stay to include the debtor's parent corporation, 3M.
By Amanda Bronstad | January 19, 2023
A federal judge in the multidistrict litigation scrapped mediation talks this week, while, in bankruptcy court, 16 plaintiffs firms opposed a request for more time to come up with a Chapter 11 reorganization plan.
By Amanda Bronstad | December 22, 2022
U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers, on Thursday, ordered that 3M could not argue its subsidiary, Aearo Technologies, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, was liable for allegedly defective combat earplugs.
By Amanda Bronstad | December 13, 2022
Paul Clement filed an opening brief on Monday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to reverse an Aug. 26 ruling in the Chapter 11 case of Aearo Technologies refusing to extend an automatic stay to include earplug cases against 3M.
By Everett Catts | November 11, 2022
"We're beginning to write memos and develop cases for different kinds of conditions that fall within the PACT Act," said Alex Scherr, founding director of the University of Georgia School of Law's Veterans Legal Clinic.
By Amanda Bronstad | November 4, 2022
A judge is considering sanctions after an Oct. 4 motion in which plaintiffs lawyers alleged 3M had made an "about-face" two months ago in its legal position. That's a "jarringly novel litigation stance," the judge wrote.
By Amanda Bronstad | October 13, 2022
A federal appeals court on Wednesday temporarily stayed what 3M called an "unprecedented and impermissible" injunction order by a Florida judge overseeing thousands of combat earplug lawsuits.
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