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Hearing Begins Over Dismissal of 3M Earplug Bankruptcy. 'There Was No Fire.'

A hearing set to last at least two days began Wednesday in Indianapolis to determine whether a bankruptcy judge should dismiss the Chapter 11 case of 3M subsidiary Aearo Technologies, designed to resolve 235,000 lawsuits over combat earplugs.
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Deadline Set: Bankruptcy Judge Will Hear 3M Earplug Dismissal Motion in April

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.
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Earplug Lawyers: Talc Dismissal 'Knocks the Props Out' of 3M Bankruptcy

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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Legaltech News

Lessons for Legal From Microsoft Outage: Know Your Recourse Options

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.
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Law.com

'A Contrivance by Clever Lawyers': Plaintiffs' Appeal Asks to Exclude 3M From Earplug Bankruptcy

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.
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Uncertainty Plagues 3M Combat Earplug Global Settlement as Judge Declares 'Impasse'

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.
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Florida Federal Judge Sanctions 3M for 'Brazen Abuse of the Litigation Process'

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.
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Law.com

'Straightforward Case for Reversal:' 3M Unit Appeals Earplug Bankruptcy Ruling

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.
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Daily Report Online

Ga. Legal Clinic Leaders Say PACT Act Could Bring 'Tens of Thousands of New Claims' from Veterans

"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.
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Law.com

Can Kirkland & Ellis 'Serve 2 Masters'? And Is 3M Changing Its Story About Earplug Liability?

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.
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