Garlock Asks Bankruptcy Court to Remove Confidentiality Designations for Asbestos Trust Claim Details

CHARLOTTE, N.C. –– Garlock Sealing Technologies has asked a bankruptcy court to remove confidentiality designations from evidence relating to asbestos trust claims, saying that “the problem of discrepancies between tort disclosures and Trust claims and other bankruptcy filings has become an issue of major public concern.”

But in their opposition filed July 17 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of North Carolina, the plaintiffs called Garlock’s motion a “transparent attempt to use information that was provided in discovery under stringent protections and solely for use in this lawsuit in other fora and for other purposes.”

Garlock’s motion …