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KONTOULAS v. A.H. ROBINS CO., INC.

Nos. 84-1087, 84-1117 to 84-1119, 84-1141.

745 F.2d 312 (1984)

Rebecca Ann KONTOULAS, v. A.H. ROBINS COMPANY, INC., and Hugh J. Davis, Jr., M.D., Defendant. Matilda S. AMSLER, et al., Appellees, v. A.H. ROBINS COMPANY, INC., Appellant, and Hugh J. Davis, Jr., M.D., Defendant. Matilda S. AMSLER, et al., Appellees, v. Hugh J. DAVIS, Jr., M.D., Appellant, and A.H. Robins Company, Inc., Defendant. Matilda S. AMSLER, et al., Appellees, v. A.H. ROBINS COMPANY, INC., Appellant, and Hugh J. Davis, Jr., M.D., Defendant. Rebecca Ann KONTOULAS, Appellee, v. A.H. ROBINS, INC., Defendant, and Hugh J. Davis, Jr., M.D., Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 3, 1984.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied November 2, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Thomas Howell, Baltimore, Md. (Charles P. Goodell, Jr., Susan T. Preston, Richard M. Barnes, Semmes, Bowen & Semmes; Joseph G. Finnerty, Jr., Deborah E. Jennings, Piper & Marbury, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellants.

Michael A. Pretl, Baltimore, Md. (Nicole Schultheis, H. Robert Erwin Jr., Erica G. Thyberg, Pretl & Schultheis, P.A., Baltimore, Md., Robert E. Manchester, Geoffrey W. Crawford, Manchester & O'Neill, P.C., Burlington, Vt., on brief), for appellees.

Before RUSSELL, HALL and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied November 2, 1984.

DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:

In this case we are again called upon to address some of the myriad problems raised by the filing of multiple tort suits based upon injuries caused by a single product, here the Dalkon Shield. The Dalkon Shield is an intrauterine contraceptive invented by appellant Hugh J. Davis, M.D., a Maryland physician. The product was developed and tested primarily at Johns Hopkins...

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