IN RE AGENT ORANGE

MDL No. 381.

570 F.Supp. 693 (1983)

In re "AGENT ORANGE" Product Liability Litigation.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

September 15, 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. Agr. & 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 United States of America.


Pretrial Order No. 59

GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge, sitting by designation:

Defendants have appealed from an oral order of the special master regulating deposition discovery over the next three months. Initially, the court stayed all discovery. In December 1980 that stay was modified so that discovery could proceed on the government contract defense issues. By pretrial order no. 51, dated May 20, 1983, the court granted summary judgment to four of the...

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