IN RE AGENT ORANGE PRODUCT LIABILITY LITIGATION

MDL No. 381.

565 F.Supp. 1263 (1983)

In re "AGENT ORANGE" PRODUCT LIABILITY LITIGATION.

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

On Motion for Reargument June 22, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor J. Yannacone, Jr., Yannacone & Yannacone, P.C., Patchogue, N.Y., for plaintiffs.

Morton B. Silberman, Clark, Gagliardi & Miller, White Plains, N.Y., for Thompson-Hayward.

Leonard L. Rivkin, Rivkin, Leff, Sherman & Radler, Garden City, N.Y., for Dow Chemical.

Wendell B. Alcorn, Jr., Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, New York City, for Diamond Shamrock.

John C. Sabetta, Townley & Updike, New York City, for Monsanto.

William Krohley, Kelley, Drye & Warren, New York City, for Hercules.

David R. Gross, Budd, Larner, Kent, Gross, Picillo & Rosenbaum, Newark, N.J., for Thompson Chemical Corp.

Paul V. Esposito, Lewis, Overbeck & Furman, Chicago, Ill., for Riverdale Chemical Co.

Thomas Beck, Arthur, Dry & Kalish, P.C., New York City, for Uniroyal, Inc.

Arvin Maskin, Gretchen Leah Witt, Civ. Div., U.S. Dept. Justice, Washington, D.C., for the U.S. of America.


GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:*

In this multidistrict litigation Vietnam veterans and their relatives seek to recover damages from nine chemical companies, Dow Chemical Co. (Dow), Hercules, Inc. (Hercules), The Monsanto Co. (Monsanto), Diamond Shamrock Corporation (Diamond Shamrock), Hoffman-Taff (Missouri) (Hoffman-Taff), Thompson Chemical Corporation (Thompson), T.H. Agriculture & Nutrition...

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