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Environmental & Energy,
Civil Litigation,
Bankruptcy

Apr. 28, 2020

Environmental group tries to get around defendant’s bankruptcy filing

The plaintiff filed a motion April 1 seeking to stop the bankruptcy stay and to amend their complaint to name a wholly-owned subsidiary as the sole defendant.

In a maneuver courts might begin to see more of as virus-related economic losses mount, an environmental group is seeking to amend its complaint to get around a bankruptcy filing by the defendant.

The Association of Irritated Residents sued Owens-Illinois Inc. over a glass manufacturing plant in Tracy. The complaint led by Matthew C. MacLear with Aqua Terra Aeris Law Group in Oakland alleged the Delaware-registered company has en...

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