Mealey's (August 6, 2021, 1:49 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A 2017 claim against an asbestos trust for a man’s mesothelioma is barred by a release he signed 31 years earlier when settling a state court suit against one of the companies that eventually established the trust through bankruptcy, a California federal bankruptcy judge held Aug. 5 in granting the trust summary judgment based on claim preclusion,...