by Calculated Risk on 6/20/2009 12:11:00 AM

During the Chrysler bankruptcy, I excerpted and linked to lawyer Steve Jakubowski's Bankruptcy Litigation Blog. Steve has taken it a step further and stepped into the GM fray ...

From Steve: Objecting to the GM 363 Sale's Treatment of Product Liability Claims: Stepping Into The Fray

[A] lot of panicked plaintiffs' lawyers involved in cases against GM are screaming these days as they watch years of toil on behalf of people seriously injured by defective GM products (like crushed roofs, exploding "side saddle" gas tanks, and collapsing seat backs) potentially go for naught as GM makes its grandest attempt ever to crush an entire class of former customers and existing and future products liability claimants in a sale that many plaintiffs lawyers of record only received written notice of in the past couple of days.

Those following this blog know my rising concern (even anger) over how products liability claimants were completely stiffed in Chrysler ...

So, I decided to do something about it, and officially stepped into the fray by filing this Objection to the GM Sale and this Memorandum in Support jointly with counsel for the Center for Auto Safety, Consumer Action, Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety, National Association of Consumer Advocates, and Public Citizen.

From the NY Times: New Objections May Delay G.M. Exit From Bankruptcy

A group of General Motors bondholders and some of the automaker’s labor unions filed objections on Friday to G.M.’s plan to sell its assets to a new company that could emerge from bankruptcy protection.

Their opposition, with objections filed by consumer groups, a handful of states and cities, and individual retirees, shareholders and bondholders, threatens to put the brakes on what the company and the government had hoped would be a rapid trip through the Chapter 11 process.

The GM bankruptcy might take a little longer than Chrysler.