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IN RE MULTI-PIECE RIM PRODUCTS LIABILITY

No. 79-1781.

612 F.2d 377 (1980)

In re MULTI-PIECE RIM PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION. FIRESTONE TIRE & RUBBER CO., Appellant, v. John C. RISJORD, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided January 7, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Freivogel, Chicago, Ill., William H. Sanders, Blackwell, Sanders, Matheny, Weary & Lombardi, Kansas City, Mo., and Harvey M. Grossman and Henry J. Shames, Grossman & Shames, Los Angeles, Cal., on brief, for appellant.

John R. Gibson, Morris J. Nunn and J. Emmett Logan, Morrison, Hecker, Curtis, Kuder & Parrish, Kansas City, Mo., on brief, for appellee.

Before GIBSON, Chief Judge, and LAY, HEANEY, BRIGHT, ROSS, STEPHENSON, HENLEY and McMILLIAN, Circuit Judges, sitting en banc.

LAY, Circuit Judge.

Personal injury claimants brought suit against the Firestone Rubber Co. and Firestone moved thereafter that claimant's counsel, John C. Risjord, and his law firm be disqualified from representing them because of an alleged conflict of interest with Firestone's insurer. The district court, the Hon. William R. Collinson presiding, ordered counsel Risjord to comply with the consent requirement of Disciplinary Rule 5-105 of the Code of Professional...

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