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IN RE DIAMOND SHAMROCK CHEMICALS CO.

No. 754, Docket 83-3065.

725 F.2d 858 (1984)

In re DIAMOND SHAMROCK CHEMICALS COMPANY, the Dow Chemical Company, Monsanto Company, Hercules Incorporated, and T H Agriculture & Nutrition Company, Inc., Petitioners, In re "AGENT ORANGE" PRODUCT LIABILITY LITIGATION.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 9, 1984.

Certiorari Denied February 27, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wendall B. Alcorn, Jr., Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, New York City, for petitioners.

David John Dean, Carle Place, N.Y., Stephen J. Schlegal, Chicago, Ill., Benton Musslewhite and Thomas Henderson, Plaintiffs' Management Committee, Houston, Tex., Irving Like, Chairman, Law Committee, Babylon, N.Y., for respondents.

Before NEWMAN and WINTER, Circuit Judges, and MacMAHON, District Judge.

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

This multi-district litigation in the Eastern District of New York involves several hundred actions brought by veterans of the armed forces of the United States, Australia and New Zealand who served in Vietnam at some time during the period 1961 to 1972 and by their spouses, parents and children. Jurisdiction is based upon diversity of citizenship. In re "Agent Orange" Product Liability Litigation, 635 F.2d 987

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