( September 12, 2025, 10:56 AM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — A South Carolina state court order appointing a receiver for defunct talc supplier Whittaker, Clark & Daniels Inc. did not bar the company’s board of directors from filing a bankruptcy petition for the company, a unanimous Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held in affirming a New Jersey federal bankruptcy judge’s denial of a bid by the receiver and asbestos claimants to dismiss Whittaker’s Chapter 11 case....