Judge In Asbestos Case Finds Stay Doesn’t Bar Remand, Hess Merger Collusive

(December 13, 2022, 1:41 PM EST) -- ST. CROIX, V.I. — The failure of a settlement and resulting new litigation precipitated an oil company’s interest in merging its entities, a federal judge in the Virgin Islands said Dec. 12 in finding that a bankruptcy stay does not prevent a ruling on remand and that the merger was a collusive attempt at securing federal jurisdiction....