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

No. 86-3879.

828 F.2d 1029 (1987)

Diana R. BEARD; Wendy Busch; Jeannette C. Bulinski; Carol Cook; Laura Bein Emerson; Carol Evans; Melinda Frison Evans; Barbara Ferguson; Nancy C. Franz; Janet Gamet; Mary Carmen Graham; Cheryl Ann Gruse; Ava Hamilton; Mary Hein; Janet Heitzmann; Lucy Judson; Betty Kenzel; Judy Kurtz; Susanne Leuthauser; Sandra Roberts Merrill; Sandra Diane Miller; Peggy Morgan; Barbara T. Nowak; Mary Ann Perkins; Ravonda Lou Potter; Kathy Quinton; Judy Ramsay; Marcia Louise Raymond; Pamela S. Reiter; Elaine Rogers; Jessica Simkulet; Janet Singletary; Evelyn M. Snyder; Mary Stewart; Carol Waltz; Diane D. West; Deirdre J.F. Zietz; Katharine K. Beattie; Fareda Belcher; Floyd Belcher; Anna Louise Luhman; Sandra J. Mertens; Ronald G. Mertens; Vicki Brown; Beverley C. Davisson; William A. Davisson; Mary Ann Evertson; Sandra L. Flynn; Shirley Mae Luetke; Patty E. Hutton; Leon D. Hutton; Billie Rae Mercer; Judity A. Nichols; James R. Nichols; Gaylene P. Schommer; John W. Schommer; Sharon McGuire; Rachel Hummel; Scott Hummel; Nancy J. Taylor; Patricia Ann Tronsgard; Sarah Elizabeth McLeod McInnis; Sherry Peavy; Kenneth L. Peavy; Mary Anglea Barsoti; Sherry Bergman; Denise Crowell; Kathy Deford; Carla Magdanz Everett; Ellen Ward Fisher; Myra Carita Jans; Jackie Dasso; Gina Janowitz; Penny Lanphier; Sara Lauren; Betsy Munson; Trudie J. Oliver; Silvia Rosak; Kristi Anderson Scully; Christine Seiffert; Jan Allen; Virginia Bryan; Mary Katherine Demer; John R. Demer; Beatrice D. Fordham; Harvey H. Friedman; Rhalda Friedman; Kenneth Frink; Darleene L. Frink; Joyce Grant; June Ellen Harris; Carol Harterink; Rosanne Heard; Jimmie Dale Heard; Arlene James; Deborah Jean Lenzi; Susan McKenry Lippner; Victoria L. McCord; Carol Mitchell; Wanda Jo Selvanik; Michael Paul Selvanik; Martha E. Sims; Sally Adams; Charlotte Allen; Charlotte Alstach; Kathleen Barnett; Betty Leobold; Barbara Bill; Susan Carney; Quida Jilliam; Mary Halstead; Katherine Henderson; Twinita Holstick; Elizabeth Janowitz; Janice Lowe; Debra McCravey; Diane Mance; Sandra Miranda; Bonnie Rappleyea; Jessie Scott; Mary Ann Strickland; Rejane Teofani; Carol Tucker; Carol Uzquiano; Evelyn Vlasak; Mary Watson; Sharon Wilbur; Selena Adams; Anna Newberger; Nadine Carr; Linda Willard; Joyce Frieders; Heather Lillian Hull; Kenneth L. Hull; Roberta Christine Martin; Kenneth A. Martin; Janet L. Scott; Fay Annetta Smith; Mary Ann Thomas; Steven J. Thomas; Mary Ellen Adams; David Adams; Sandy Barcus; Celia Borack; Robert Borach; Sandra Cerny; Ronald Cerny; Charlotte Coffee; Susan Duffey; Dean Duffey; Shelia Gallo-Godoy; Claudio Gallo-Godoy; Audria Golembioski; Zenvoy Golembioski; Bonnie Yappel; Judith Ann Hopkins; Laverne Hunter; Nelson Carver Hunter; Joyce Hurst; Thomas Hurst; Mary Koss; Paul Koss; Kay Marchioni; Robin Miller; Sharon Powell; Carolyn Shockling; Dale Shockling; Barbara Strowder; Cheryl Urszeni; Steven Urszeni; Joann Whyte; Staria Wimms; Beverly Jane Blake; Alan Blake; Nancy Gibberman; Barry Gibberman; Valeria Griffin; Arthur Griffin; Adeline Holt; Ralph Davis Holt; Susan Kennedy; Marion Kozelka; Nanci Losito; Alice Manke; Gilbert Manke; Dewey McGuire; Ann Miracle; Judith Ann Reece; Gary Reece; Jenny Reliford; Kathleen Salsgiver; Robert Salsgiver; Joanne Sturgeon; Patricia Van Arsdale; Harry Van Arsdale; Marcolina Waller; Johnny Waller; Joanne M. Warren, Petitioners-Appellants, v. A.H. ROBINS COMPANY, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellee, United States of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 11, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Thomas Baker, Denver, Colo. (Bragg & Dubofsky, P.C., Denver, Colo., Bradley Post, Post, Syrios & Bradshaw, Wichita, Kan., Sidney L. Matthew, Gorman & Matthew, P.A., Tallahassee, Fla., James F. Szaller, Brown & Szaller, Cleveland, Ohio, Larry S. Stewart, Stewart, Tilghman, Fox & Bianchi, P.A., Miami, Fla., Michael D. Eriksen, Cone, Wagner, Nugent, Johnson, Roth & Romano, West Palm Beach, Fla., on brief), for petitioners-appellants.

Gregory Alan Harrison, Washington, D.C. (Richard K. Willard, Asst. Atty. Gen., Henry E. Hudson, U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., J. Christopher Kohn, Arlington, Va., Tracy J. Whitaker, Washington, D.C.), James Strother Crockett, Jr. (William R. Cogar, Clifford W. Perrin, Jr., Linda J. Thomason, Mays & Valentine, Richmond, Va., Michael L. Cook, Dennis J. Drebsky, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, New York City, on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before RUSSELL, WIDENER and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges.

DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge.

This appeal by a group of Dalkon Shield claimants in a Chapter 11 corporate reorganization proceeding involving the appellee A.H. Robins Company, Incorporated, challenges the constitutionality of Section 1141(d), 11 U.S.C. It is conceded that Section 1141(d) provides that the confirmation of the plan of reorganization discharges all claims of any kind against a corporate debtor in a reorganization; however, in Section 1141(d)(2), the...

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