IN RE AGENT ORANGE PRODUCT LIABILITY LITIGATION

MDL No. 381 (JBW).

603 F.Supp. 239 (1985)

In re "AGENT ORANGE" PRODUCT LIABILITY LITIGATION.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

February 11, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen J. Schlegel, Schlegel & Trafelet, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., Benton Musslewhite, Law Offices of Benton Musslewhite, Inc., Houston, Tex., Thomas Henderson, Henderson & Goldberg, Pittsburgh, Pa., Phillip E. Brown, Hoberg, Finger, Brown, Cox & Molligan, San Francisco, Cal., Stanley Chesley, Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley, Cincinnati, Ohio, John Q. O'Quinn, O'Quinn & Hagans, Houston, Tex., Neil R. Peterson and Gene Locks, Greitzer & Locks, Philadelphia, Pa., Newton B. Schwartz, Houston, Tex., Irving Like, Reilly, Like & Schneider, Babylon, N.Y., David J. Dean, Dean, Falanga & Rose, Carle Place, N.Y., Aaron Twerski, Hempstead, N.Y., of counsel; Robert A. Taylor, Jr., Ashcraft & Gerel, Washington, D.C., H. Kelly Jones, Cayce, S.C., Leonard W. Schroeter, Schroeter, Goldmark & Bender, Seattle, Wash., Anne E. Meroney, Smith & Meroney, Atlanta, Ga., Douglas F. Patrick, Foster, Covington & Patrick, Greenville, S.C., Ronald L. Wolf, Litvin, Blumberg, Matusow & Young, Philadelphia, Pa., Lawrenceville, Va., for plaintiffs.

Linwood W. Hinson, pro se.

Richard K. Willard, Jeffrey Axelrad, Arvin Maskin, Leon B. Taranto, Robert C. Longstreth, Washington, D.C.; Raymond J. Dearie, U.S. Atty., Brooklyn, N.Y., for U.S., defendant.


MEMORANDUM, ORDER AND JUDGMENT

WEINSTEIN, Chief Judge:

Plaintiffs, Vietnam War veterans and members of their families, sue the United States government to recover damages for injuries allegedly suffered as a result of exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam. The government has moved to dismiss or, in the alternative, for summary judgment in cases in which it is the only defendant as well as in cases in which it is named as a defendant along with the manufacturers...

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