Asbestos Creditors Fail In Fight For Future Claimants Of Energy Future Holdings

Mealey's (January 28, 2019, 2:06 PM EST) -- WILMINGTON, Del. — Asbestos claimants’ challenge to the constitutionality of discharging claims of future but yet unknown disease sufferers are statutorily moot because it affects the validity of former Chapter 11 debtor Energy Future Holdings Corp.’s entire reorganization plan, a Delaware federal judge ruled Jan. 24 in dismissing the claimants’ appeal of the plan’s approval (Sherry Fenicle, et al. v. Energy Future Holdings Corp., et al., No. 18-381, D. Del., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 11194)....