Bankruptcy Judge Denies Garlock’s Attempts to Remove Confidentiality Designations for Asbestos Trust Claim Details

CHARLOTTE, N.C. –– The bankruptcy judge overseeing the estimation trial on Garlock Sealing Technologies’ liabilities for future mesothelioma claims has rejected the asbestos defendant’s attempts to remove confidentiality designations from evidence relating to asbestos trust claims.

The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of North Carolina reached the decision July 23. Garlock had claimed in its motion to remove the designation that “the problem of discrepancies between tort disclosures and Trust claims and other bankruptcy filings has become an issue of major public concern.”

In their opposition brief, however, the plaintiffs called Garlock’s motion a “transparent attempt to use …