BLANCO v. AT & T CO.


223 A.D.2d 156 (1996)

646 N.Y.S.2d 99

Diane Blanco, Appellant, v. American Telephone and Telegraph Company et al., Defendants, and International Business Machines Corporation, Respondent Bonnie L. Clark et al., Appellants, v. Apple Computer, Inc., et al., Respondents Kathryn Awgul, Appellant, v. Compaq Computer Corporation, Defendant, and Dell Computer Corporation et al., Respondents In the Matter of New York County Data Entry Worker Product Liability Litigation. Rebecca Aikman et al., Plaintiffs, and Lisa Redd et al., Respondents, v. Atex, Inc., Appellant. (And Other Actions.)

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

August 1, 1996


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven J. Phillips of counsel (Alani Golanski and Stephenie Lannigan on the brief; Levy Phillips & Konigsberg), for plaintiffs.

John A. Collins of counsel (Lipsitz, Green, Fahringer, Roll, Salisbury & Cambria, L. L. P., attorneys), for Diane Blanco and others, appellants.

Herbert Rubin of counsel (Jeffrey L. Chase, Maureen Doerner Fogel, Miriam Skolnik and Steven P. Benenson on the brief; Herzfeld & Rubin, P. C., and Porzio, Bramberg & Newman, attorneys), for Unisys Corporation and others.

Gordon L. Lang of counsel (Thomas E. Reidy, Jr., and Andrew M. Burns on the brief; Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle, L. L. P., attorneys), for 805 Middlesex Corp. (formerly Atex, Inc.).

Joseph A. D'Avanzo of counsel (Anne E. Kershaw on the brief; Cerussi & Spring, attorneys), for International Business Machines Corporation.

Daniel A. Shacknai of counsel (George M. Newcombe and Linda L. Mahoney on the brief; Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, attorneys), for NEC Technologies.

Dennis R. McCoy of counsel (Lawrence A. Schulz on the brief; Saperston & Day, P. C., attorneys), for Apple Computer, Inc.

Anthony D. Martine of counsel (McMahon, Martine & Gallagher, attorneys), for Dell Computer Corporation.

Thomas J. Drury of counsel (Damon & Morey, attorneys), for Key Tronic Corp.

Bert L. Wolff of counsel (Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, attorneys), for Honeywell.

Suzanne B. Perla of counsel (Standard Weisberg, P. C., attorneys), for Seiko Corp. and others.

James K. Stern of counsel (Schiavetti Geisler Corgan Soscia DeVito Gabriele & Nicholson, attorneys), for Behavior Tech.

Thomas M. De Simone of counsel (Ahmuty Demers & McManus, attorneys), for Memorex Corp. and another.

John F. Parker of counsel (Costello Shea & Gaffney, attorneys), for Harris Corporation.

Eleanor N. Flach of counsel (Capriano Lichtman & Flach, attorneys), for Dynamic Decision and others.

Andrew P. Fishkin of counsel (Edwards & Angell, attorneys), for AT&T and another.

Irving B. Levinson of counsel (Helleb & Coff, attorneys), for Amtote and another.

Gerold Mallow of counsel (Mallow, Konstam, Hager & Fischer, attorneys), for Litton Industries.

Robert E. Quirk of counsel (Quirk & Bakalor, P. C., attorneys), for Tandy Corporation.

Michael Yoeli of counsel (Gordon & Silber, P. C., attorneys), for Olympia.

Bruce A. Torino of counsel (Torino & Singer, P. C., attorneys), for Cascio.

William M. Wingertzahn of counsel (Heidell, Pittoni, Murphy & Bach, P. C., attorneys), for Quotron Systems and another.

Thomas E. Liptak of counsel (Kenney, Kanaley, Shelton, Notoro, Liptak & Laing, L. L. P., attorneys), for Motorola.

Stephen M. Cohen of counsel (Brody & Fabriani, attorneys), for WYSE Technology and others.

Thomas J. Drury of counsel (Damon & Morey, attorneys), for Key Tronic Corp.

Thomas J. Reddington of counsel (Law Offices of Gerard J. Marulli, attorneys), for Raytheon Co.

H. Michael O'Brien of counsel (Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, attorneys), for Zenith Data.

Harold M. Weidenfeld of counsel (Sidley & Austin, attorneys), for Zenith Electronics.

Charles B. Updike of counsel (Schoeman Marsh & Updike, attorneys), for Xerox.

Lisa M. Iannone of counsel (Lester Schwab Katz & Dwyer, attorneys), for Miles.

Kenneth J. King of counsel (Beatie King & Abate, attorneys), for Digital.

Peter A. Cross of counsel (Jacob, Medinger & Finnegan, attorneys), for ITT Corp.

Lawrence A. Hoffman of counsel (Olshan Grundman Frome & Rosenzweig, attorneys), for Chicony America.

Robert B. Churbuck of counsel (O'Brien & Mayr, attorneys), for Samsung Information Systems America.

John S. Kiernan of counsel (Debevoise & Plimpton, attorneys), for Compaq Computer Corporation.

KUPFERMAN, ROSS and MAZZARELLI, JJ., concur.


MILONAS, J. P.

We are called upon to consider the plight of numerous plaintiffs with different or multiple kinds of repetitive stress injuries (RSI), allegedly caused over time by the use of data entry keyboards manufactured by one or more of the various defendants. In what is referred to as the "master decision" of the IAS Court (a single discussion of the applicable...

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