IN RE ASBESTOS CASES

No. CP-77-1.

514 F.Supp. 914 (1981)

In re ASBESTOS CASES

United States District Court, E. D. Virginia, Norfolk and Newport News Divisions.

May 6, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Nusbaum, Hofheimer, Nusbaum, McPhaul & Brenner, Norfolk, Va., for Greitzer & Locks, Gene Locks, Martin Greitzer, and Neil R. Peterson.

C. Michael Montgomery, Seawell, McCoy, Dalton, Hughes, Gore & Timms, Norfolk, Va., for Johns-Manville Corp.; Johns-Manville Sales Corp.

William V. Hoyle, Hoyle, Corbett, Hubbard, Smith & Payne, Newport News, Va., for Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.

James C. Shannon, May, Garrett, Miller & Parsons, Richmond, Va., for Garlock, Inc., Precision Seal Division.

William B. Eley, Eley, Rutherford & Leafe, Norfolk, Va., for Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc.

Gerard E. W. Voyer, Taylor, Walker, Bernard & Adams, Norfolk, Va., for Unarco Industries.

M. Stuart Bateman, Bateman, Downing, Redding & Downing, Newport News, Va., for Fibreboard Corp.

Herbert V. Kelly, Jones, Blechman, Woltz & Kelly, Newport News, Va., for GAF Corp.

William L. Dudley, Jr., Doumar, Pincus, Knight & Harlan, Norfolk, Va., for Armstrong Cork Co.

Archibald Wallace, III, Sands, Anderson, Marks & Miller, Richmond, Va., for H. K. Porter Co. and Southern Textile Corp.

Worth D. Banner, White, Reynolds, Smith & Winter, Norfolk, Va., for Pittsburgh Corning Corp.

Henry C. Morgan, Jr., Pender, Coward, Addison & Morgan, Virginia Beach, Va., for Keene Corp.

John Y. Pearson, Jr., Willcox, Savage, Lawrence, Dickson & Spindle, P.C., Norfolk, Va., for The Celotex Corp.

Before MacKENZIE, Chief District Judge, and KELLAM and CLARKE, District Judges.


AMENDED OPINION AND ORDER

CLARKE, District Judge.

Between 1977 and 1980 Neil R. Peterson defended the United States in a major group of asbestos cases (the Norfolk cases) in the Norfolk and Newport News Divisions of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. In 1980, Mr. Peterson joined the law firm of Greitzer and Locks. As of April 23, 1981, Greitzer and Locks was co-counsel of record representing two hundred sixty (260) plaintiffs...

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