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IN RE A.H. ROBINS CO., INC.

No. 87-2592.

846 F.2d 267 (1988)

In re A.H. ROBINS COMPANY INCORPORATED, Debtor. WASHBURN & KEMP, PC, Appellant, v. COMMITTEE OF DALKON SHIELD CLAIMANTS: Class Action Claimants, Appellees, United States of America; Securities and Exchange Commission: Legal Representative, Future Tort Claimants, Appellees, A.H. Robins Company, Incorporated, Appellee, Official Unsecured Creditors' Committee, Appellee, Official Committee of Equity Security Holders; Norman E. Oliver, Trustee, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 17, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Paul Falzone (Everette G. Allen, Jr., Hirschler, Fleischer, Weinberg, Cox & Allen, Richmond, Va., on brief) for appellant.

Stanley Knight Joynes, III (Rilee, Cantor, Arkema & Edmonds, Richmond, Va., Mark C. Ellenberg, Caldwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Washington, D.C., Harold S. Novikoff, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York City, on brief), for appellees.

Walter Scott Street, III (A. Peter Brodell, Williams, Mullen, Christian & Dobbins, Richmond, Va., John G. Harkins, Jr., Deborah F. Cohen, Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, Philadelphia, Pa., on brief), for amicus curiae, the Aetna Cas. and Sur. Co.

Before RUSSELL, WIDENER, and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges.

DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge.

The avalanche of Dalkon Shield litigation over the last decade or so became so vast as to force the manufacturer, A.H. Robins Company, Inc. (Robins), to file a petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code on August 21, 1985. In the processing of this bankruptcy, a number of novel and troublesome issues, resulting in a number of appeals to this court, have arisen. We confront another of such issues in this appeal...

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