1. Home
  2. Browse Decisions
  3. F.3d
  4. 134 F.3d
  5. 134 F.3d 668 (1998)
 

IN RE ASBESTOS LITIGATION

No. 95-40635.

134 F.3d 668 (1998)

IN RE ASBESTOS LITIGATION, James FLANAGAN, David H. Middleton, Edee Cochran, Esteban Yanez Ortiz, John R. Allgood, Henry William Evers, Lester Eugene Taylor and Safety National Casualty Corporation, Appellants, v. Gerald AHEARN, James McAdams Dennis, Charles W. Jeep, James Drake, Juanita Drake, James Ellison, Roland Dearborn, Judith Dearborn, Kerwin Butcher, Dir., Workers Comp., Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, U.S. Dept. of Labor, Paul Cochran, Ida Beck, Marion Behee, Longshore Intervenor, William James Mitchell, Fibreboard Corporation, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Continental Casualty Company, Pacific Indemnity, Francis McGovern, Owens-Illinois, Inc., Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, Columbia Casualty Company, CNA Casualty Company of California, Celotex Corp., Daniel Herman Rudd Jr., on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, John Hansel, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 27, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard C. Jaques, Michael J. Connor, Jaques Admiralty Law Firm, Detroit, MI, for Flanagan and Middleton.

Elihu Inselbuch, Charles Sanders McNew, Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered, New York City, Steven Kazan, Kazen, McClain, Edises, Simon & Abrams, Oakland, CA, for Ahearn, Dennis, Jeep, Ellison and Mitchell.

Joseph F. Rice, Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson & Poole, Charleston, SC, Peter Van Lockwood, Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered, Washington, DC, Joseph B. Cox, Jr., Cox & Cox, Sullivan's Island, SC, for Ahearn, Dennis, Jeep and Ellison.

Harry Fred Wartnick, Wartnick, Chuber, Harowitz, Smith & Tigerman, San Francisco, CA, Eric D. Green, Boston, MA, for Ahearn, Dennis and Jeep.

Bruce L. Ahnfeldt, Napa, CA, for Juanita Drake.

Clinton A. Krislov, Krislov & Associates, Chicago, IL, Ronald W. Lupton, Stinson, Lupton & Weiss, Bath, ME, for Roland and Judith Dearborn, Butcher and Longshore Intervenor.

Michael Scott Hertzig, Washington, DC, for Dir., Workers Comp., Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, U.S. Dept. of Labor.

Frederick M. Baron, Dallas, TX, for Paul and Edee Cochran, Beck, Behee, Allgood, Evers and Taylor.

Stephen M. Snyder, Kelly C. Wooster, William R. Irwin, James L. Miller, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, San Francisco, CA, for Fibreboard Corp.

Herbert Maurice Wachtell, Meyer G. Koplow, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York City, Donald T. Ramsey, David M. Rice, Rodney L. Eshelman, Carroll, Burdick & McDonough, San Francisco, CA, for Continental Cas. Co., Columbia Cas. Co. and CNA Cas. Co. of Cal.

Billy Glynn Parker, Ireland, Carroll & Kelley, Tyler, TX, for Continental Cas. Co.

Paul J. Bschorr, Richard B. Sypher, Dewey Ballantine, New York City, for Pacific Indem.

Richard L. Josephson, Baker & Botts, Houston, TX, Robert B. Shaw, Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, L.L.P., Columbia, SC, for Owens-Illinois, Inc.

Gary A. Bresee, Barger & Wolen, San Francisco, CA, for Penn Mut. Life Ins. Co.

Stuart Philip Ross, Ross, Dixon & Masback, Washington, DC, for Columbia Cas. Co. and CNA Cas. Co. of Cal.

Charles P. Schropp, Schropp, Buell & Elligett, Tampa, FL, for Celotex Corp.

Anne W. Bloom, Arthur H. Bryant, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, Washington, DC, for Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, amicus curiae.

Jeffrey Robert White, Pamela A. Liapakis, Associated Trial Lawyers of America, Washington, DC, for Association of Trial Lawyers of America, amicus curiae.

James L. Kimble, Craig A. Berrington, David F. Snyder, American Ins. Ass'n, Washington, DC, for American Ins. Ass'n, amicus curiae.

Scott McCullen Baldwin, Baldwin & Baldwin, Marshall, TX, for Asbestos Victims of America, amicus curiae.

Brent M. Rosenthal, Steve Dan Baughman, Baron & Budd, Dallas, TX, Sidney Katherine Powell, Powell & Associates, Dallas, TX, S. Ann Saucer, Dallas, TX, for Edee Cochran, Ortiz, Allgood, Evers and Taylor.

Andrew K. Epting, Jr., Wise, Pratt-Thomas, Pearce, Epting & Walker, Charleston, SC, Roy L. Stacy, Dennis D. Conder, Dallas, TX, for Safety Nat. Cas. Corp.

Before REAVLEY, DAVIS and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

In our prior opinion, we affirmed the judgment below, which approved class action settlements of asbestos-related claims involving Fibreboard Corporation. In re Asbestos Litigation, 90 F.3d 963 (5th Cir.1996), vacated, ___ U.S. ___, 117 S.Ct. 2503, 138 L.Ed.2d 1008 (1997). The Supreme Court vacated our judgment and remanded the case for reconsideration in light of Amchem Products, Inc. v. Windsor,...

Let's get started

Leagle.com

Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting
Sign on now to see your case.
Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.

  • Updated daily.
  • Uncompromising quality.
  • Complete, Accurate, Current.

Listed below are the cases that are cited in this Featured Case. Click the citation to see the full text of the cited case. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case.

Cited Cases

  • No Cases Found

Listed below are those cases in which this Featured Case is cited. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case.

Citing Cases