A gasket-maker says that complying with a subpoena for information about asbestos claims asserted against it would not violate a protocol that has been established to allow people and companies to object to the unsealing of evidence of alleged misrepresentation by asbestos plaintiffs lawyers.
A group of asbestos claimants filed an emergency motion seeking to block the gasket-maker Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC, which is going through bankruptcy, from releasing information subpoenaed by Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd. Imperial Tobacco would get to access a database of asbestos personal-injury claims made prior to Garlock’s bankruptcy petition and ballots cast by creditors in dozens of asbestos bankruptcies, Garlock said.
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