1. AUTOMATIC STAY -

1.1 Covered Activities -

1.1.a Court declines to enjoin third party claims against the debtor’s jointly liable parent corporation. The debtor manufactured earplugs for many years. A major multinational corporation acquired it. Two years later, it transferred its earplug manufacturing operation to its parent. Although the parent continued to manufacture and sell the earplugs, 80% of the sales occurred before the transfer. The earplugs were ineffective, resulting in hundreds of thousands of product liability actions against the debtor and the parent in both state and federal court, with the federal actions consolidated under an MDL procedure...