3M EARPLUG LAWSUIT UPDATES:
October 24, 2022 Update: 3M wants to pretend that Aearo is a seperate company from 3M. But it can't muster the energy to even pretend. Aearo wanted to hire Kirkland & Ellis as bankruptcy counsel. But that same law firm represents 3M - an obvious conflict. So the U.S Trustee, the DOJ’s bankruptcy watchdog, was forced to intervene. It asked the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Indiana to deny Aearo’s choice of Kirkland as its bankruptcy lawyers.
October 23, 2022 Update: 3M got some good news this week, albeit soft good news. In addition to agreeing to hear the 3M bankruptcy appeal on an expedited basis, the 11th Circuit also granted 3M’s request to stay an order by earplug MDL Judge Casey Rogers which blocked 3M from challenging her MDL rulings in the Aero bankruptcy proceeding.
The request was granted partly because plaintiffs in 3M earplug cases pending in Minnesota state court were attempting to use the ruling by Judge Rogers as a shield in their cases. 3M will now be free to argue issues in the Aero bankruptcy that have already been ruled on in the MDL. None of these issues will matter, however, if the 11th Circuit rejects 3M’s appeal of the bankruptcy court ruling.
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