Garlock: ACC motion to reopen estimation proceeding ‘remarkably thin’

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Legal Newsline) – Now that Bankruptcy Judge George Hodges has ordered the estimation record in the Garlock Sealing Technologies case unsealed, the Asbestos Claimants’ Committee, or ACC, is seeking to reopen the estimation proceeding to conduct more discovery.

In a Nov. 7 reply to the ACC’s most recent motion to reopen the estimation proceeding, the debtors – which include Garlock, Garrison Litigation Management Group and The Anchor Packing Company – oppose the committee’s “inflammatory claim.”