Daniel Raymond STEPHENSON, Susan Stephenson, Daniel Anthony Stephenson, Emily Elizabeth Stephenson, Joe Isaacson and Phyllis Lisa Isaacson, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
DOW CHEMICAL CO., Monsanto Co., American Home Products, Inc., Hercules Incorporated, Occidental Chemical Corporation, Ultramar Diamond, Chemical Land Holdings, Inc., Maxus Energy Corp., Harcros Chemical Inc., Shamrock Corp., and Does 1-100, Thompson Hayward Chemical Co., T-H Agriculture & C.D.U. Holding, Inc., Uniroyal Chemical Co., Defendants-Appellees.
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Argued May 23, 2001.
Decided November 30, 2001.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Stephen B. Murray, Jr., Murray Law Firm, New Orleans, LA, for Appellants Daniel Raymond Stephenson, Susan Stephenson, Daniel Anthony Stephenson and Emily Elizabeth Stephenson.
Gerson S. Smoger, Smoger & Associates, Oakland, CA (Mark R. Cuker, Williams, Cuker & Berezofsky, Philadelphia, PA, Ronald Simon, Simon & Associates, Washington, DC, of counsel), for Appellants Joe Isaacson and Phyllis Lisa Isaacson.
Stephen Brock, Rivkin, Radler & Kremer, LLP, Uniondale, NY, for Appellee Dow Chemical Co. (John C. Sabetta, Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, New York, NY, for Appellee Monsanto Co.; Michael M. Gordon, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, New York, NY, for Appellees Occidental Chemical Corporation, Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Corp., Maxus Energy Corp., Chemical Land Holdings, Inc.; William A. Krohley, Kelley, Drye & Warren LLP, New York, NY, for Appellee Hercules Incorporated; Myron Kalish, Parker, Duryee, Rosoff & Haft, P.C., New York, NY, for Appellees Uniroyal Chemical Co., Uniroyal, Inc., C.D.U. Holding, Inc.; Lawrence D'Aloise, Clark, Gagliardi & Miller, White Plains, NY, for Appellees Nutrition Co., Inc., Thompson Hayward Chemical Co., T-H Agriculture, Harcros Chemicals, Inc.).
Steve Jensen, Baron & Budd, P.C., Dallas, TX, (Brent M. Rosenthal, Dallas, Texas; Leslie Brueckner, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, Washington, District of Columbia; Arthur Bryant, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, Oakland, California), for Amicus Curiae Trial Lawyers for Public Justice.
Before: CARDAMONE and PARKER, Circuit Judges, and SPATT, District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
PARKER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal requires us to determine the effect of the Supreme Court's landmark class action decisions in Amchem Products, Inc. v. Windsor,521 U.S. 591, 117 S.Ct. 2231, 138 L.Ed.2d 689 (1997), and Ortiz v. Fibreboard Corp.,527 U.S. 815, 119 S.Ct. 2295, 144 L.Ed.2d 715 (1999), on a previously settled class action concerning exposure to Agent Orange during the Vietnam...
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