In re "AGENT ORANGE" PRODUCT LIABILITY LITIGATION.
United States District Court, E.D. New York.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
September 26, 1983.
September 26, 1983.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Victor J. Yannacone, Jr., Yannacone & Associates, Patchogue, N.Y., for plaintiffs.
Leonard L. Rivkin, Rivkin, Leff, Sherman & Radler, Garden City, N.Y., for defendant The Dow Chemical Corp.
Morton B. Silberman, Clark, Gagliardi & Miller, White Plains, N.Y., for defendant T.H. Agriculture & Nutrition Co., Inc.
Wendell B. Alcorn, Jr., Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, New York City, for Diamond Shamrock.
Philip D. Pakula, Townley & Updike, New York City, for defendant Monsanto.
William Krohley, Kelley, Drye & Warren, New York City, for defendant Hercules, Inc.
Thomas Beck, Arthur, Dry & Kalish, New York City, for defendant Uniroyal.
Howard Lester, Lester, Schwab, Katz & Dwyer, New York City, for defendant Hoffman-Taft.
John M. Fitzpatrick, Dilwarth, Paxson, Kalish & Levy, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant Hooker Plastics & Chemicals Corp.
David R. Gross, Budd, Larner, Kent, Gross, Picillo & Rosenbaum, Newark, N.J., for defendant Thompson Chemical Co.
Paul V. Esposito, Lewis, Overbeck & Furman, Chicago, Ill., for defendant Riverdale Chemical Co.
Arvin Maskin and Gretchen Leah Witt, Civil Division, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the United States of America.
United States District Court, E.D. New York.
GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge, Sitting by Designation:
In Pretrial Order No. 26, the court appointed a consortium of lawyers operating under the name "Yannacone and Associates" as attorneys for the plaintiff class. Although the class status of the action was not then and has not yet been formally and finally adjudicated, Yannacone and Associates have functioned as lead counsel for the plaintiffs in all matters before the court since December 1980.
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