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IN RE AGENT ORANGE PRODUCT LIABILITY LITIGATION

Dockets 85-6083, 85-6161, 85-6269, 85-6301, 85-6303, 85-6323, 85-6327, 85-6339, 85-6341, 85-6349, 85-6371, 85-6381, 85-6385 and 85-6387.

787 F.2d 822 (1986)

In re "AGENT ORANGE" PRODUCT LIABILITY LITIGATION.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 8, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin R. Matthews, (Budd, Larner, Kent, Gross, Picillo, Rosenbaum, Greenberg & Sade, Short Hills, N.J., of counsel), for Thompson Chemicals Corp.

Robert A. Taylor, Jr., Washington, D.C., Joel Rome, Philadelphia, Pa., William S. Beatty (Law Office of William W. Schooley, Granite City, Ill.), Avram Adler, Philadelphia, Pa., James H. Brannon, Houston, Tex., and Richard L. Steagall, Peoria, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Before NEWMAN, KEARSE and MINER, Circuit Judges.

MINER, Circuit Judge:

Thompson Chemicals Corporation ("Thompson") moves to dismiss fourteen appeals arising out of the Agent Orange product liability litigation because it was neither named as a defendant nor served with process in the underlying actions. For the reasons set forth below, we grant Thompson's motion as to four of the appeals, and we refer the motion as to the remaining ten appeals to the panel hearing the appeals for disposition.

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