According to this NPR report, a bankruptcy judge in North Carolina presiding over a gasketmaker's insolvency proceeding has torn into the actions of plaintiffs lawyers prosecuting cases against the defendant. For example, the judge described, according to NPR, how "in Texas, one plaintiff said his only exposure to asbestos was from Garlock — after his lawyers filed a claim with another company. In California, a plaintiff's lawyers misled a jury to make Garlock look worse. And in Philadelphia, lawyers made evidence of their client's exposure to 20 different asbestos products disappear."
Garlock was authorized by the judge to conduct discovery into the evidence used against the company in 15 cases, and Garlock is now suing several plaintiffs' law firms in complaints that are now under seal.
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