IN RE RELATED ASBESTOS CASES

Nos. C-79-3588, C-81-2702, C-81-3871, C-81-2693 and C-81-3843.

23 B.R. 523 (1982)

In re RELATED ASBESTOS CASES.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

Order September 23, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth W. Carlson, Burke W. Bradley, John Gigounas, Law Offices of Kenneth W. Carlson, Oakland, Cal., Gerald C. Sterns, Law Offices of Gerald C. Sterns, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs.

Norman B. Hendricks, Law Offices of Norman B. Hendricks, Berkeley, Cal., for plaintiff Deanne J. Snyder.

Arthur Jay Moore, Moore, Clifford, Wolfe, Larson & Trutner, Oakland, Cal., for defendant Johns-Manville Corp.

Charles Negley, Douglas G. Wah, Maloney, Chase, Fisher & Hurst, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.

Frank E. Bondonno, Popelka, Allard, McCowan & Jones, San Jose, Cal., for defendant Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp.

Ronald E. Hothem, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Fibreboard Corp.

Berry & Berry, Oakland, Cal., for defendant Celotex Corp.

Winningham, Roberts & Rogie, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc.

Gary T. Drummond, Stevens & Drummond, Walnut Creek, Cal., Haims, MacGowan & McInerney, Oakland, Cal., for Amatex Corp.

Charles W. LaGrave, Law Offices of William J. Duke, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant H.K. Porter Inc.

Law Offices of Hassard, Bonnington, Rogers & Huber, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Pittsburgh Corning Corp.

Wilkes R. Morgan, Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Unarco Industries, Inc.

Lawrence E. Mullally, Oakland, Cal., for defendant Keene Corp.

Gudmundson, Siggins & Stone, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Armstrong Cork Co.

McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant GAF Corp.

Law Offices of William I. Duke, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Southern Textile & Thermoid.

Robert A. Ford, Case & Ford, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Combustion Engineering, Inc.

Morgenstein, Ladd & Jubelirer, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Owens-Illinois, Inc.

St. Clair, Zappettini, McFetridge & Griffin, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Nicolet, Inc.

Albert B. Norris, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, Oakland, Cal., for defendant Southern Pacific Trans. Co.

Stuart M. Gordon, Gordon & Rees, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant The Bendix Corp.

Harold Cohn, O'Connor, Cohn, Dillon & Barr, James L. English, San Francisco, Cal., Douglas L. Field, Taylor & Field, Oakland, Cal., Frederick Bradley, Mead, Bradley & Keenan, San Francisco, Cal., W. Conrad Hoskins, Bianchi, Hoskins & Rosenberg, San Rafael, Cal., for defendant Ryder Industries, Inc.

James R. Busselle, Ream, Train, Horning, Ellison & Roskoph, Palo Alto, Cal., for defendant Wagner Elec. Corp.

Patrick H. Fabian, Sullivan, Roche & Johnson, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Abex Corp.

Ropers, Majeski, Kohn, Bentley, Wagner & Kane, San Francisco, Cal., for cross-defendant Thiokol Corp.

Law Offices of Glenn P. Lewis, Lafayette, Cal., for cross-defendant Carlisle Corp.

George W. Ball, Low, Ball & Lynch, San Francisco, Cal., for cross-defendant American Motors.

James J. Marchiano, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, Oakland, Cal., for cross-defendant Chrysler Corp.

Thompson, Mayhew & Michel, Sacramento, Cal., for cross-defendant Worldbestos.


ORDER

PECKHAM, Chief Judge.

I.

Across the country, thousands of asbestos-related personal injury actions are pending. Plaintiffs therein contend that their injuries have been caused by asbestos products, allegedly manufactured, sold or distributed by the numerous codefendants. Unarco Industries, Inc., and Johns-Manville Corporation are two such codefendants. Unarco alone is a defendant in an estimated 14,000 actions nationwide. Johns-Manville is...

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