Owners of General Motors cars with faulty ignition switches turned to the only judge who can help them, saying it’s wrong to shield the automaker behind bankruptcy law.In their first formal demand to U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Gerber, customers said GM left defective cars on the market long after it knew they were dangerous. The automaker must be made to pay for its “callous cover-up” and the collapse of prices after belated recalls this year, they said Tuesday in court papers in Manhattan.
They asked the judge to lift a ban on a $10 billion suit now pending in another court. By law, Gerber’s orders from the carmaker’s five-year-old bankruptcy don’t apply to anyone who wasn’t told to put in a claim at the time, they said.
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