Legal Opinion
In re C.P. Hall Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 24, 2014No. 13-1306PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The question presented by this appeal is whether a nonparty to a bankruptcy proceeding should be entitled to intervene in *660the proceeding. Hall, the debtor in bankruptcy, is a former distributor of asbestos and asbestos products. It quit that imperiled business in the mid-1980s but continued in corporate existence as a litigation shell. Tens of thousands of separate asbestos claims were filed against it. It sought to shift as much of the cost as possible to its liability insurers; and not until 2011 was it forced to declare bankruptcy, initially under Chapter 11 but the…
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