General Motors Implores Bankruptcy Court To Decide Manville Injunction Dispute

(June 30, 2017, 10:57 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A New York federal bankruptcy judge should exercise jurisdiction over General Motors LLC’s bid for declaratory relief against the asbestos trust established in Johns-Manville Corp.’s Chapter 11 case and find that GM’s state court claims for recovery of money for payments made to a widow are not barred by protective injunctions issued in the bankruptcy case, GM says in a June 23 response to the trust’s motion to dismiss (In re Johns-Manville Corporation, et al., No. 82-11656 [General Motors LLC v. Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust, et al., No. 1:17-ap-1032], S.D. N.Y. Bkcy.)....