Just one more comment on Judge Rodgers’ ruling this week. The one thing that always stood out as the most hypocritical part of the bankruptcy effort was 3M’s effort to reduce the punitive damage award in Wayman because there were not six defendants but just one because 3M “owns and controls 100% of the other five named defendants.”
The hypocrisy is obvious but this affliction is seen with lawyers on our side of the aisle too, to be honest. But what is striking is that 3M had the audacity to make this argument after the bankruptcy scheme first was concocted in the early spring of 2022. You just wonder how that could happen.
In any event, as we lean into 2023, 3M is running out of cards to play in this litigation.