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FRIENDS FOR ALL CHILDREN v. LOCKHEED AIRCRAFT CORP.

No. 82-1424.

717 F.2d 602 (1983)

FRIENDS FOR ALL CHILDREN, INC., as legal guardian and next friend of the named 150 infant individuals, et al. v. LOCKHEED AIRCRAFT CORPORATION and the United States of America, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided September 9, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Sharp, Washington, D.C., with whom Bruce C. Swartz, Carroll E. Dubuc, Nicholas H. Cobbs, William Kanter and Linda Jan S. Pack, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., were on the brief for appellants.

J. Vernon Patrick, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., with whom Oren R. Lewis, Jr., Arlington, Va., William M. Cohen and Charles R. Work, Washington, D.C., were on the brief for appellees.

Before BORK and SCALIA, Circuit Judges, and BAZELON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge BORK.

BORK, Circuit Judge:

This interlocutory appeal occurs in the course of protracted litigation resulting from the crash outside Saigon on April 4, 1975, of a C5A aircraft manufactured by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation and owned and operated by the United States Air Force. The district court denied appellants' motion to dismiss on forum non conveniens grounds seventy-three actions filed by Friends for All...

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