The comic-opera overtones of the Trump administration often mask serious constitutional questions with big implications for American business. Take, for instance, the battle for control of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. After more than two years without a Deputy Director, on Nov. 24, CFPB Director Richard Cordray named Leandra English Read more…
The ostensible purpose of a Maryland Senate hearing last month was to discuss solutions to the stubborn backlog of more than 30,000 asbestos lawsuits in the Baltimore courts. But plaintiff lawyers spent more time asking for a legislative fix to a single legal decision that could eliminate thousands of those Read more…
Koch Industries has put a division of its Georgia-Pacific unit in Chapter 11 bankruptcy after failing to stem a rising tide of lawsuits by mesothelioma victims who attribute their disease to asbestos-containing drywall compound. Georgia-Pacific’s Bestwall business manufactured the joint compound, commonly known as “mud,” with chrysotile asbestos fibers until Read more…