Judge Andrew B. Altenburg Jr. granted the BowFlex Liquidating Trust and Johnson Health Tech entities’ motion to enforce the plan, confirmation order, and sale order after four putative class actions were filed over BowFlex adjustable dumbbells recalled in June 2025. The Memorandum Decision Enforcing Sale and Confirmation Orders holds that the challenged actions are void ab initio and requires Elizabeth M. Cosin, Duke Douglas, Alan Calderon, and Robert Ahearn to dismiss their complaints with prejudice.

The ruling matters because it preserves the free-and-clear sale bargain and the plan’s gatekeeper structure more than a year after Johnson’s $37.5 million acquisition. The court treated the lawsuits as collateral attacks on the sale and confirmation orders, reinforcing that successor-liability and released-party claims tied to pre-closing products must run through the bankruptcy court rather than district-court class litigation. The trigger source was Wn.