Asbestos Committee, FCR Attack Georgia-Pacific’s Plan To Shed Liabilities

(April 23, 2020, 8:44 AM EDT) -- CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Asbestos claimants’ representatives have taken their fight against the 2017 corporate restructuring of paper products giant Georgia-Pacific to a North Carolina federal court, arguing in two April 15 appellant briefs that a bankruptcy court improperly issued an injunction for an affiliate that shields Georgia-Pacific from asbestos claims worth billions of dollars (Official Committee of Asbestos Claimants of Bestwall LLC v. Bestwall LLC, No. 3:20-cv-103, Sander L. Esserman v. Bestwall LLC, No. 3:20-cv-105,W.D. N.C.)....