Law360, New York (November 19, 2015, 2:59 PM EST) -- At a hearing in late August, Southern District of New York Bankruptcy Judge Robert Gerber expressed his annoyance with both sides in the ongoing battle to determine whether General Motors LLC ("New GM"), the entity formed in 2009 to acquire the assets of General Motors Corp. ("Old GM"), is shielded from lawsuits based on ignition switch defects in cars manufactured prior to New GM's acquisition of the assets of Old GM in 2009. He chastised the parties for being "insufficiently nuanced" in their interpretations of his decisions earlier this year on the extent to which New GM could face liability for economic damages stemming from the defects, which allegedly caused numerous deaths and injuries, and which were known by employees of Old GM but were not properly reported (or may have been deliberately covered up)....