Chief Bankruptcy Judge Stripped Of Cases After Attorney Relationship Disclosed

(October 18, 2023, 12:51 PM EDT) -- HOUSTON — A chief bankruptcy judge who served as a HONX Inc. asbestos bankruptcy mediator and oversaw a fracking bankruptcy will no longer hear cases after the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals filed an official complaint against him in the wake of the disclosure of a romantic relationship with a lawyer employed by counsel that appeared before him....