The strength of Professor Ralph Brubaker's scholarship provided "considerable force" in the mind of Bankruptcy Judge J. Craig Whitley of Charlotte, N.C., and he cited Brubaker's work extensively when denying a motion to dismiss a pair of "asbestos" chapter 11 cases where the family of companies could pay $250 million in current and future liability. In Rochelle's Daily Wire from the American Bankruptcy Institute, the decision is analyzed and Brubaker added his own commentary. Though this case does not discuss the Purdue Pharma case before the Supreme Court, the author notes that it has overlap in bankruptcy courts not sanctioning nonconsensual, nondebtor, third-party releases.

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