IN RE AGENT ORANGE PRODUCT LIABILITY LITIGATION

No. 1069, Docket 80-7079.

635 F.2d 987 (1980)

In re "AGENT ORANGE" PRODUCT LIABILITY LITIGATION

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 24, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Moseley, John C. Sabetta and Leonard Rivkin, New York City (Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Townley & Updike, New York City, Clark, Gagliardi & Miller, White Plains, N.Y., Kelley, Drye & Warren, New York City, and Rivkin, Leff & Sherman, Garden City, N.Y., on brief), for defendants-appellants.

Irving Like, Babylon, N.Y., and Victor John Yannacone, Jr., Patchogue, N.Y. (Edward F. Hayes, III and Malerba, Abruzzo, Clancy, Hayes, Downes & Frankel, Huntington, N.Y., Reilly & Like, Babylon, N.Y., W. Keith Kavenagh, Bayport, N.Y., Albert J. Fiorella, Mineola, N.Y., Yannacone & Yannacone, Patchogue, N.Y., Paul F. Corcoran, Mineola, N.Y., Aaron D. Twerski, Far Rockaway, N.Y., and Dorothy Thompson and Greenwald & Greenwald, Los Angeles, Cal., on brief), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before FEINBERG, Chief Judge, and VAN GRAAFEILAND and KEARSE, Circuit Judges.


KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents the question whether claims asserted by veterans of the United States armed forces against companies which supplied the United States government with chemicals that are alleged to have been contaminated and to have injured the veterans and their families, are governed by federal common law. Defendants-appellants Diamond Shamrock Corporation, Monsanto Company, Thompson-Hayward Chemical Company, Hercules Incorporated and the...

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