After a protracted fight, a federal judge has ruled on Thursday that all of the evidence that led him to find misrepresentations by plaintiffs in an asbestos-related bankruptcy must be unsealed.

When U.S. Bankruptcy Judge George Hodges of the Western District of North Carolina estimated the liability of Garlock Sealing Technologies, LLC, in January, he found that Garlock likely owes $125 million to asbestos plaintiffs.

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